I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
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The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Lucky that I have recorded my memories in some more lasting way than ink. But I always knew that there would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it. — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better! — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.” — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it.” — David A. Santos Copy Share Image
I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books. — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
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Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
The fans have always supported me; bought my books, attended my camps and wore my sneakers. I will always have a special… — Walt Frazier Copy Share Image
“Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.” — T.E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years… — E M Forster Copy Share Image
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
Reading 'Animal Farm' set me free from the dictatorship in my head. I could see all the tactics used by the regime… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a… — Eva Gutowski Copy Share Image
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
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I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal. — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
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