I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Time cleaning was less time reading, so I usually just did the minimal amount, and left it for another day, a day… — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Women are like the F.B.I before they ask you a question they may have all the evidence in the book, but they… — Brandon Martin Copy Share Image
“By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina” — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't believe that fiction is dead. I know there are some people who believe that it's an outdated art form, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so… — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
“And they lived happily ever after” is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It is tragic because it tells a… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down;… — Sam Worthington Copy Share Image
I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were… — John Scott Copy Share Image
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
While readers know that advertisements keep the product cost low, they still buy a newspaper for its editorial content and not for… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is very similar to a Politicians speech providing the book is Fantasy.” — DENNIS SEDDON Copy Share Image
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“The sign of a good book is that it entertains you. The sign of a great book is that it changes you.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's definitely scary to follow a book that's been turned into a Netflix series and found as much success as Girlboss did. — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.” — James Jeffrey Roche Copy Share Image
I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation. — Charice Pempengco Copy Share Image
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).” — Caroline Kepnes Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“The novel is a more diffused form and more suited to those who like to linger along the way; it also requires… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
