“How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Truly love you endlessly. Every day without you is like a book without pages. I love you, I will always do, for… — F Abahusain Copy Share Image
Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's great being a part time writer. If you sell books you're a success. But if you don't sell any then all… — Aaron T Knight Copy Share Image
“The thousand thousand grasses, dry now in the late-summer heat, bristle like the brittle pages of a thousand ancient books being turned… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Writing is reverse metamorphosis. One entombs a beautiful idea in a chrysalis of paper or electronic bits and bites, and when you’re… — Kermit E. Heartsong Copy Share Image
“There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing the book,… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that. — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
But what can be done gull gull when you turn the sun on again, a dead fruit and all that flies today… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I had a dog named Basil, and he's the hero of the book 'Animal Firm.' Oddly enough he's a dachshund, which is… — Robert Graysmith Copy Share Image
I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about. — Jack Kent Cooke Copy Share Image
While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer. — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
To be true to a play, you can't add something that takes away from the author's intent. — Jason Robards Copy Share Image
Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
I was going to try writing but it was always just songs. It never quite worked, but I have got a book… — Motorhead Copy Share Image
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups. — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian. — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Only bad books have good endings.if a book is any good, its ending is always bad_because byou don't want the book to… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say,… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
