By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. — J. A. Jance Copy Share Image
I think you get into trouble as an author and a journalist when, rather than owning the gaps, you try to elide… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“Although erotica authors are being targeted, this is an issue that should concern all indie authors. It affects indies disproportionately because indies… — Mark Coker Copy Share Image
But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
There's a page in #2 where I did one of the most interesting pages I've ever drawn. I had to think, "This… — Declan Shalvey Copy Share Image
You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
“What is reading, in the last analysis, but an interchange of thought between writer and reader? If the book enters the reader's… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin.” — Marguerite Poland Copy Share Image
We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“She been trying to read for the past two hours—trying and failing. Even an utterly sinful romance novel hadn’t held her interest.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I took the speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“A book, a poem, a play — they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“She remembered her books in the moments of worst sorrow, especially the ones that were made for her and the one that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“It’s a remarkable experience to ask yourself identity-crisis questions from a comic book movie with a mostly straight face, but I don’t… — Jonathan Talat Phillips Copy Share Image
Radio, books, sports-so many means to spend time, but what I like most is the leafy sunshine amidst the Debdaru. — Sukanta Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written. — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens; bask in their beauty, gather their fruit, pluck their roses, take their… — Samuel Ben Judah Ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else. — Tana French Copy Share Image
“When asked why I write psychological horror, I always reply that this form is the most intimate way to reach a reader.… — Wayne Allen Sallee Copy Share Image
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