A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Book Hangover - The inability to start a new books because you're still living in the last book's world.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit. — Theodore Stevens Copy Share Image
I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here,… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification. — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
“In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
“If you stand at the window where I stood, if you read the books that I read, if we can be with… — T.o.p Copy Share Image
When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a… — Alan Dale Copy Share Image
“My favourite book is my dictionary. It excites me. Each time I open it, the endless possibilities come tumbling out. It’s Alice… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“I was limited by stories that came before mine. We are so often limited by our own expectations of stories, by the… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I've read enough dreary campus novels to know more than I ever wanted to about the punctured Oxbridge academic psyche, and feel… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Don't men read books and take from them what is already in their own hearts?” — Traci L. Slatton Copy Share Image
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“No bears were molested in the making of this book. Well, no live bears.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The people who says, the book is better than the movie, are fucking assholes. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film. — George Packer Copy Share Image
