When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is. — John Irving Copy Share Image
A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Reviewing good puzzle books is frustrating, because you get to page one of the introduction, find a curious puzzle, become engrossed for… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible.… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“THE DEMON INSIDE.A book that will take you to one of the scariest places on earth. Your imagination.” — Peter Fryer Copy Share Image
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I don't judge the book by its cover, I judge the cover by its book. And guess what, the book is still… — Unkown Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books. — Aaron Carter Copy Share Image
“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“So, the book is not 'anti-religion.' It is against the use of religion as a front for tyranny; which is a different… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I am trying to add a book -that i am reading now. In spanisch- Schiller o la invención del idealismo alemán Best… — Rudiger Safranski Copy Share Image
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm… — Jewel Copy Share Image
A thousand books on tennis won’t improve your serve, but a thousand serves will. — Rick DeMarinis Copy Share Image
I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.” — Richard L. Brandt Copy Share Image
If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I've been around so long that I might be in record books for being the longest, weirdest, most pathetic great player ever.… — Vince Spadea Copy Share Image
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I… — Amy Elizabeth Smith Copy Share Image
“It occurred to Meg that there were probably a lot of her mother’s friends she’d never met. “Naughty Book Club. They’ve known… — Tracy Ewens Copy Share Image
The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
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