I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.” — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Nabokov and George Orwell had quite different gifts, and their self-images were quite different. But, I shall argue, their accomplishment was… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable diminishing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“Literature, after all, from Homer onwards, is littered with the recounting of deaths and with the fascination for death, and in this… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it… — Bruce Tognazzini Copy Share Image
Theories, books and ideas created within ivory towers had real-world consequences. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.' — Birdy Copy Share Image
I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
“The novel is a more diffused form and more suited to those who like to linger along the way; it also requires… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it. Read as if… — Emma Brynstein Copy Share Image
“From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and… — J. Don Cook Copy Share Image
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
