I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations. — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. — John Irving Copy Share Image
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“On getting lost in a book. Set adrift A life unknown Connections form Love is sewn” — Patty Wiseman Copy Share Image
Buying reviews of ebooks that include downloads is a well-known way to 'juice' an ebook's sales rank and attract new readers. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend. — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
When you're chasing story lines, it's very challenging. It's hard enough to have a relationship in any case, let alone one where… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
“I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I first told people I was writing a book, some would say that was interesting, but others thought it was some… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
“I just want to say one thing. If I ever write a novel again, it's going to be in defense of weak… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
“Author: A common gadabout who freely wanders over the landscape, picking up free words and squirreling them away for later use. Subsequently,… — Leopold Throckmorton Copy Share Image
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“A single act for humanity is better then write hundred books on humanity” — Farhan Muhammad khan Copy Share Image
I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts. — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
As far as exercising goes...watch for my next book, How I died while Jogging. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
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