The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake... — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions. — Lynsey Addario Copy Share Image
I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
We wanted to do our own programme. It's cooking, chatting to people and writing books. Like brothers, we never run out of… — Dave Myers Copy Share Image
“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
I think of our readers as young, conscious people. We can't underestimate how far-reaching our content is, especially these days. — Elaine Welteroth Copy Share Image
“Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Love was merely a tool, smiles were another tool, they were both just tools for accomplishing certain ends. No magic, merely chemicals.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat with only 236 different words, so his editor bet him he couldn’t write a… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating. — Ahmet Zappa Copy Share Image
“I don't ever want to read a book with the word globe in it again.” — Caris O'Malley Copy Share Image
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image