The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
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The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Everything is Flammable was the first full-length book I was able to finish. I started a couple others, but ran out of… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
“Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan,… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
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I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them? -Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book, to… — Yogi Berra Copy Share Image
My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
It's common procedure in the industry for people with little or no professional writing experience to get a book deal because of… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
“If you want to know what's in motherhood for you, as a woman, then - in truth - it's nothing you couldn't… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at… — Kasey Anderson Copy Share Image
“Who is the writer here? YOU ARE. Whose book is it? YOUR BOOK. There are no writing police. No one is going… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
Underground comics were striking in that they seemed largely unedited - in a typical book, with stories by five to ten creators,… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It is the first book, maybe the only book to talk about how the problem of climate change can be addressed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Virginia Woolf said, speaking from the perspective of the writer, that there’s no such thing, objectively, as a good or a bad… — Joanna Kavenna Copy Share Image
“This all seemed quaint and amusing, but as the book moved through to the modern day, nothing changed. People still fell to… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The city keeps reinventing itself. And each generation thinks, as they enter it, that they've missed the best of it, and then… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I was always different in that I liked being by myself. Even in kindergarten, when we were told to line up and… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
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I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
