“I wanted something grand and sweeping." "The kind of love you find in novels?" "Maybe. That makes me incredibly stupid, I suppose.” — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“This is no way to treat a book,” he said. “Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books. — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“As a reader, I could put on someone else's shoes and live through his adventures, borrow his individuality and make choices that… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the greatest album ever. There's no greatest book, greatest human, greatest movie. At a push, the closest… — Richard Norris Copy Share Image
“I did manage to read some pages from a book that’s also about how people can find strength they didn’t know they… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. — William Drummond Copy Share Image
My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“We fall for those who cross our paths but we don't exist to them." -Maryann Gestwicki, Author -Unrequited Love,2015” — Maryann Gestwicki Copy Share Image
I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's… — Stephen Cosgrove Copy Share Image
I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
My favorite novel ever is Abraham Verghese's 'Cutting for Stone.' It takes you so many places. I stayed up to 4 in… — Beth Macy Copy Share Image
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but… — George Washington Cable Copy Share Image
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds...” — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it,… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So let the haters hate, let the doubters doubt, I stand by my book, and my life, and I won't dignify this… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
You can try and read me like a book but Ill slam the cover closed. Ive got secrets in my pages that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family. — John Banville Copy Share Image
