Something rubs off from everything you read, observe, and tinker with. — R. F. Delderfield Copy Share Image
“A novel in progress doesn't have a clear, forward process. It’s messy, like a beloved, balky child.” — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers. — Andrew Wylie Copy Share Image
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I'm having a boring interview on the telephone, and I'm trying to think about something else because the questions are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It will comfort us when we must wait in distress for the Savior's promised relief that He knows, from experience, how to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids’ adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People who shine can sometimes see things that are gonna happen, and I think sometimes they can see things that did happen.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“A good book can make you laugh but only a great book can make you cry” — Rockerlulu Copy Share Image
“The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.” — Michael Findley Copy Share Image
