“We live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“Thousands and thousands of books are thrown on the market every year presenting some new variant of the personal romance, some tale… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“…the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge… — George Burns Copy Share Image
Enlightenment does not come by reading many books, obtaining multiple academic degrees, meditating and starving the body under an ancient tree or… — Prem Tihan Copy Share Image
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe that books, like people, come to us at the perfect time, with a purpose to either bring awareness to something… — Lindsay Carricarte-Jones Copy Share Image
Take your time, however long the book needs. I've seen a lot of promising careers go into decline because writers succumbed to… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I knew and loved… — Sanela Ramic Jurich Copy Share Image
My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest… — Craig Venter Copy Share Image
Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A lot of people have made the valid point that if you don't believe the arts are a 'viable' job, or you… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
“The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Good libraries hold several millions of books: even if we read a book a day, we would read only 365 a year,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time… — Sarah Harrison Copy Share Image
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
“I want the reader to understand, that at this time I had a good experience, a pure heart, was full of the… — Maria Woodworth-Etter Copy Share Image
I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Based on my review of the scientific literature, I suggest that you aim for a daily carbohydrate intake target that is based… — Velopress Copy Share Image
“Literature is open to everybody. I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass. Lock up… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person.… — M.V. Carey Copy Share Image
Several of my books are 'How to' guides, specifically about getting outdoors, giving kids and parents ideas for what to do in… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
“Hochschild’s sweet reason in his letter on the complex question of European colonialism appears to have abandoned him while writing the book… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
