Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I encourage a lot of young women to read. I tell them that it will change their lives. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar. — Mukul Dev Copy Share Image
Life is like a book.. It takes months or maybe years to print.. but just a second to burn in a fire.. — Kand3n Copy Share Image
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Readers of my online journal - I refuse to use the word blog because it sounds like something that lives on a… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to not use my phone for the whole day. I feel like because of books, I can find… — Iga Swiatek Copy Share Image
“We're going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read… — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
Sometimes readers want some escapist fun, to get lost in the story. But light-hearted romantic stories can and should star all kinds… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I'm a huge comic book fan, and I've read a lot from all different comic book outlets. — Jaimie Alexander Copy Share Image
“If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write? Now, write that book.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person. — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something. — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience. — William Feather Copy Share Image
My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Books are like batteries, he says. And you grow a little stronger by reading them, surrounding yourself with them.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. — David Shields Copy Share Image
A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir. — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one. — Bryan Talbot Copy Share Image
The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me. — Danny Burstein Copy Share Image
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
“I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
