Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I hope Anne's book will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar as it is possible in… — Otto Frank Copy Share Image
I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
My wife suggested a book for me to read to enhance our relationship. Its titled, Women are from Venus, Men are Wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends. — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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The Love Dare for Parents really came from an ongoing response from people who went through the couple's book asking us to… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
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It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think each of my books attempts to create its own voice so I'm not even sure I have a signature style,… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
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