Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! I almost bounced clear outta the book! Some bouncin', huh? [after he tries to jump out of the book while climbing… — Tigger Copy Share Image
I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamt of by its author. — Stephen C Johnson Copy Share Image
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I read the poem [In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke] because I was intrigued and had one of those strange senses:… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“[...] I'm about to get on a plane here, and I'm packing recovery literature. All I know is I'm going to be… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“1. The criminal must be mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader… — Ronald A. Knox Copy Share Image
“Through Red’s eyes, this entire Universe is about Relationship — between the most minute particles and the grandest galaxies, between the chicken… — Sera Beak Copy Share Image
Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
“She’s been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels. — David Grann Copy Share Image
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
“A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“Romantic novels, the kissing scenes, the ditching scenes have taught the youth of India more English than all the English classes in… — Sneha Mehta Copy Share Image
“When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
“book for career women in the late 1970s included a chapter on “What If They Call You a Castrating Bitch” — Leslie Berlin Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Just as from dust is evolved the man, from the deeds which he does is evolved the higher man.” — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much… — Irena A. Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I love books. I love that moment when I open one and sink into it. I can escape from the world, into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Aubrey became a reader early so she wouldn’t feel alone in her apartment at night.” — Michele Campbell Copy Share Image
“I spied a copy of the novel Fifty Shades of Grey on the coffee table. “Haley, are you seriously reading that crap?”… — T.B. Markinson Copy Share Image
Do I think that, when we're teaching a book at school, should we go through a myriad list of trigger warnings? No.… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
![“Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! I almost bounced clear outta the book! Some bouncin', huh? [after he tries to jump out of the book while climbing a tree with Roo]” quote by Tigger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2f/tigger-25627_books_hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-i-almost-bounced-clear-o_1417625.jpg)
![“I read the poem [In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke] because I was intrigued and had one of those strange senses: "This poem is kind of important to me. I don't know why, but I'm going to just keep it in the back of my mind." I just kept coming back to it. As I started putting the book together…” quote by Peter van Agtmael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a5/peter-van-agtmael-25908_book_i-read-the-poem-in-a-dark-time-by-theodo_2244408.jpg)
![“[...] I'm about to get on a plane here, and I'm packing recovery literature. All I know is I'm going to be the guy reading the book on co-dependency. That's what I know about me.” quote by Marc Maron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5f/marc-maron-2459_books_i-m-about-to-get-on-a-plane-here-and-i-m_1873808.png)
