In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know. — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
I read the books, get some, Listen to others, get little but what i get the most is to sit and think. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
“Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.” — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they… — Immaculee Ilibagiza Copy Share Image
There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out. — John Wesley Harding Copy Share Image
“I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.” — Jen Selinsky Copy Share Image
I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“At last she interrupted with a harsh rattle of laughter. "Oh, yes, I like this book! Crazy hopes of a glamorous, rich,… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
