A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“The book didn’t generate anything. All it did was give people a chance to express the biases they had before they even… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
As the author you know how you want it to appear on screen and it's always the content dictating the form. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore. — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores. — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
In high school, I got into a speech class run by a nun who used to put on plays. She put me… — Ed O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“There were pools of light among the stacks, directly beneath the bulbs which Philip had switched on, but it was now with… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I always carry a book with me to read on the bus, and I tend to arrive everywhere early. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind. — Judith S. Beck Copy Share Image
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
“I was born to use papers and books to speak up. I was born to use my pen to defend my views… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s! — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
My favorite aspect of being an author has always been visiting different communities and meeting my readers face to face. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well! — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Mostly I sit alone in a room and cry and do my job - so when they let me out of my… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.” — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Creativity...passion...sweat...heartbreak...inspiration...and lots of hard work...that is what books are made of!” — Tara Fairfield Copy Share Image
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being… — Gregory Keyes Copy Share Image
A kiss is like a book, it can tell you a thousand words, but in order to under stand the true meaning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were… — Quentin Bell Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“I'm not looking to be a Big Mac and fries author a la King. I'm aiming at filet mignon and steamed zucchini.” — LK Hunsaker Copy Share Image
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