Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
“Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.” — Peggy A. Borel Copy Share Image
A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.” — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie. — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“How flimsy our existence is, how many conditions must exist and must continue to exist over the course of millions of years… — Dror Burstein Copy Share Image
To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“The novel begins in a railway station, a locomotive huffs, steam from a piston covers the opening of the chapter, a cloud… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Biblical inspiration may be defined as God’s superintending of the human authors so that, using their own individual personalities and even their… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Fiction writing is art. It therefore, has few mathematical or scientific limits to its evolution. The writer must always push forward, experiment,… — Ron Gavalik Copy Share Image
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions. — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Life is like a book; Dont jump to the end to see if its worth it. Just enjoy life and fill the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story. — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you have to chose between turning the page and closing the book… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“I have never been drawn to luxury. I love the simple things; coffee shops, books, and people who try to understand.” — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
I didn't have very many friends growing up. I was very much a nerd. I read comic books, and I wanted to… — Xavier Woods Copy Share Image
“My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
“We shove the dirt over the book, tamping down the disturbed soil. The grass will grow back soon enough. It will be… — John Green Copy Share Image
Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help? — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“En alguna novela he escrito que el amor consiste en encontrar a alguien con quien compartir tus rarezas.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. — Novalis Copy Share Image
“I am honored to have the opportunity to inspire the young and the young at heart through our Picture Books and author… — Julie Freyermuth Copy Share Image
What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.” — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Never go back into an old love, no matter how strong it is, because its like reading a book over and over… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event! — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
