“Whores wear read… Pink’s just red with some cream mixed in, you silly slut.” — Cara McKenna Copy Share Image
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out. — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Everyone has an opinion, and it seems that the negative voices can be the loudest, but I chose to focus on the… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner.” — Karen E. Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is… — Augusto Monterroso Copy Share Image
To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Before I started writing my album, I didn't tell people many things. But because I'm going to the studio every day and… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we chose the books we want to read and sometimes they chose us. ” — Rubin Carter Dr Copy Share Image
The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span. — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
YA readers are just not rigid about genre. They're all for the mash-up. — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
