A novel quite possibly won't be good and, even more possibly, will have not-good parts, but at least it won't shape-shift on… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
My first series, the 'Inheritance' trilogy, in the first book, you were dealing with a woman of color from an impoverished culture,… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“Some book reviewer whose name I forget recently called me a 'vicious misanthrope' . . . or maybe it was a 'cynical… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Some, in their curiosity, will say, "But you Mormons have another Bible! Do you believe in the Old and New Testaments?" I… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms. I know of districts in which the young… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
“I've learned that instead of sending him to time out for melting down on the ball field, what he really needs is… — Maralise Andersen Copy Share Image
“This is not a book about race, though the disproportionate number of those who fell that day were black, and certain racial… — Gary Younge Copy Share Image
As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying… — Don Wilton Copy Share Image
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny;… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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My family sits around and tells all these amazing stories of pirates and the wa. Then one day I'm having a beer… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
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The best language is always found in books because it's considered. It's a high language. Sometimes, it is complex and difficult. It's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“When I look through Bob, the actual stories between his mottled covers may have been written by others, but they belong to… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty… — Michael Wilbon Copy Share Image
I also really loved the friendship between these two women, and watching these two very different women working in this gritty male… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
