If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“She didn't know what to make of him. Why he would be intrested in her, she could only guess. Maybe he only… — Marie Zhuikov Copy Share Image
I have offered teachings and practices in 35 countries, and yet in Vietnam, my books are still banned. — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book… — Faye Hall Copy Share Image
Personally, I'm not into 'Star Trek' or physics or comic books, but I know I might be in the minority. — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
“The book of Proverbs makes the same point: Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
“She seated herself on a dark ottoman with the brown books behind her, looking in her plain dress of some thin woollen-white… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As it's related to publishing, I think magazines really benefit from having a staff with a range of different perspectives and cultural… — Elaine Welteroth Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
When I went to an Aspen seminar on "American Scriptures" - the bicentennial of the Declaration and they discussed the preamble and… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
There are many things I still don't know or don't do well in comic books. It's more a question of having the… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
“A humour of reading books, except those of devotion or housewifery, is apt to turn a woman's brain... All affectation of knowledge… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“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 doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow… — Graham Greene 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
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
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch.” — Jhumpa Lahiri 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
