Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“No, I have never had a problem finding books to read. But I have had a problem finding people who understand what… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
“He who writes this book in which hate is not hidden was formerly a pacifist...For him no disillusionment was ever greater or… — Emile Verhaeren Copy Share Image
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic,… — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually… — Peter Facinelli Copy Share Image
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Scientific works and entire libraries were set to torch kindled by the insane religious fanatics. We have already mentioned the Bishop of… — Petr Beckman Copy Share Image
One of the things I would love to do is 'Axe Cop,' which is a comic book. I would like to be… — Ken Marino Copy Share Image
“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“There are a range of useful and illuminating analyses of the media construction of organised abuse as it became front-page news in… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?'… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
“We are all misfits, poseurs, and clowns. We are heartbroken and lonely, failures in life, criminals and frauds. Most of our successes… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“When I read the actual story-how Gatsby loves Daisy so much but can't ever be with her no matter how hard he… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“They are the lost books,” he turned his head, grasping his cane and raising it aloft, as if speaking more to the… — Darius Jones Copy Share Image
“People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“Then he opened the Bible Queen Alexandra had given them and ripped out the flyleaf and the page containing the Twenty-third Psalm.… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
“Do not insult a writer by asking him questions related to books written by someone else. If you are not reading the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of… — Chris Raschka Copy Share Image
I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks,… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
