“Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“But if you like, you can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh Burgos cheese. With that, and The… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
When I'm there, it's pure silence. There are other writers there, too, and I get super competitive. I have this weird fear… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Read things to not just know what's going on, but see it from different varying viewpoints. — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
“I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell… — Amanda McKittrick Ros Copy Share Image
“Karl wondered how many scientists read this science fiction stuff. Maybe they couldn’t get good books out in New Mexico?” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When I read Daniel Woodrell's novel 'Winter's Bone,' I was drawn to the characters, the setting, and the sound of the dialog. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“The only bad book was a book that didn't have any pages in it.” — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and… — John Grooters Copy Share Image
“Literature's father figures can only loom, intimidate, and inspire for so long before they must be slain by their offspring.” — Larry McCaffery Copy Share Image
