I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Because reality has no authority there. My imagination controls everything.” — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
“It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
I'm harsh on myself. But let's be honest: I'm not as harsh as the online one-star critic who says, 'This book is… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others. — Joseph Delaney Copy Share Image
I think you are doing a disservice to a novel just by transposing it wholesale onto the screen, because it doesn't work.… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and they were really special. They were kind of the quintessential, mild for the most… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
“The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
I got a damn good mind to write a book about all the feelings that I have inside about all these things… — Ernest Borgnine Copy Share Image
I wasn't one of those kids who stole Richard Pryor records. I wasn't a comedy-nerd kid. I had no concept of stand-up.… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can't make it good or magical. I couldn't even read a book where… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
“Besides,” said Mr Norrell, “I really have no desire to write reviews of other people's books. Modern publications upon magic are the… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The gift of faith is a priceless spiritual endowment... Our faith is centered in God our Father, and Jesus Christ, our Savior… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them. — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
Studying means: to text, to eat and to watch TV with an open book neatby. — Michael Angelo De Leon Copy Share Image
The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently. — David Shields Copy Share Image
I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
