“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new. — Mathias Dopfner Copy Share Image
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
My daughter Lily's the oldest, and by the time she was six months, we just had books of photos. Poor little Maeve,… — Chris O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1968, committed suicide in 1971. Two years earlier, in 1969, another great… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript,… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
“...this is exactly the kind of store that makes you want to buy a book about a teenage wizard. This is the… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“One of the most incredible secrets of science fiction (although one not too closely guarded) is the fact that 99 percent of… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“You have made some notes, read some writing books, and done some research. Mostly what you've done is talk about writing a… — Pat Walsh Copy Share Image
“This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I… — Mark McNairy Copy Share Image
As I do with all of my books, I outlined The Beach House from the beginning to end. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If anyone ever wanted me to do Broadway out there, poopshoot readers, please think of me. — David Arquette Copy Share Image
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Books are the best conductors of knowledge, they transfer knowledge efficiently from one human to another with 0% knowledge loss inbetween.” — Chandan Sharma Copy Share Image
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Authors, reviews are not for you. They are not for you. Authors, reviews are not for you.” — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“Books are like candy some can be sweet some can be sour, but no you cannot eat them” — morgan Copy Share Image
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at… — David Grann Copy Share Image
This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again. — Stephen Collins Copy Share Image
“Copyright © Glenn Greenwald, 2014 The moral right of the author has been asserted All rights reserved” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Writing books can be a tricky business when you have no fucking idea what you’re doing.” — Nathan Rabin Copy Share Image
I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’ll take you to a lighthouse and kiss you like in that book about the cranberries everyone has to read in… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“But you're kind of like a great book…you know, you pick up a book at the bookstore because it has a beautiful… — Miranda Kenneally Copy Share Image
