We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book. — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Every word I wrote in my book is documented, certified, true, and correct. The truth wins, and that is my picture. — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman. — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
I am gonna write a book about my life, that way at least I will get paid for people being in my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the… — Elmer Kelton Copy Share Image
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“I found my father asleep in his dining-room armchair, with a blanket over his legs and his favorite book open in his… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A good book is like a good friend. Time spent together is never wasted. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
