I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books. — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful. — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
“If I have not read a book before, it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed… — William Haizlett Copy Share Image
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.” — Jeremy Young Copy Share Image
“…secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week. — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
“You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language.… — Pickthall M. Marmaduke Copy Share Image
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
My Face book gave too me, 12 stupid bitches, 11 fake friends, 10 FB hackings, 9 new sins 8 play dates, 7… — Denver Mc Copy Share Image
“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
“In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well… — Gauguin Copy Share Image
'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones. — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me. — Strickland Gillilan Copy Share Image
I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
