There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge… — David Means Copy Share Image
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read… — Madison Pettis Copy Share Image
For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty. — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." Louisa May Alcott” — R.R. Smythe Copy Share Image
It's really important to make the time to curl up and not look at a screen at night. Just to escape into… — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
“This is a book about fracture. About the experiences that make up a life. About the pieces of me. Delving into naked… — Rachel Thompson Copy Share Image
“Perfect is highly overrated. I'm a character in my story, going through the chapters of my life as if it was written… — Vi Keeland Copy Share Image
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“He turned and looked at Henry. “Did you always know that you would write all these books?” “I know the next sentence,”… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I discovered Emerson's soporific qualities by falling asleep with my face in the book, drooling all over an essay called 'Self-Reliance'...” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
They say that being humble leaves you out of the record books. I want to be in the record books. — Danny Garcia Copy Share Image
“He described the Literary Apothecary to her. “A longboat with a low-slung belly, a galley, two sleeping berths, a bathroom and eight… — Nina George Copy Share Image
“associate with the noblest of people you can find; read good books; live with the mighty” — Thomas Davidson Copy Share Image
“friends are like books you use them when you need them but u will always remember them” — Yasmine Gooneratne Copy Share Image
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The man who publishes a book without an index ought to be damned 10 miles beyond hell, where the Devil himself cannot… — John Baynes Copy Share Image
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.” — Nicole Luiken Copy Share Image
It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Yes, I am an author. I have written some beautiful love stories and witnessed some ugly relationships.” — Nitin Kumar Copy Share Image
An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart. — Uri Shulevitz Copy Share Image
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the house, writes the author in all seriousness describing a memorial service for a medical… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Dorothy Parker on Ayn Rand: “Atlas Shrugged is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great… — Bathroom Readers' Institute Copy Share Image
Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Because—and don’t let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write. — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Life is an open book, with the potential to become whatever can be comprehended.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
