“Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.” — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
“I wish Barry Lopez would write novels. from "Conversations with Jim Harrison” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.” — Alan Snow Copy Share Image
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” Revelation 22:7” — Jon J. Cardwell Copy Share Image
It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Just one more way they were compatible. Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“The attention for bad literature is symptomatic: they pretends its the most normal thing in the world to fill an entire newspaper… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to… — Susan Patron Copy Share Image
“Henry Mitchell, in his book One Man's Garden, observes that "it is not important for a garden to be beautiful" in everyone's… — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words."… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“Set yourself to becoming the best-informed person in the agency on the account to which you are assigned. If, for example, it… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend?” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
