Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences. — William Shunn Copy Share Image
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“If writing a book were easy everyone would be doing it. Oh, wait, everyone is.” — Simone Pond Copy Share Image
“Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“time per session and the number of words that your child looked up in the dictionary. Tap the Activity link in the… — Amazon Copy Share Image
Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
Each day is a surprise - and each day I learn something wonderful and new. Both in writing thrillers and in reporting… — Hank Phillippi Ryan Copy Share Image
“decade was over For Dummies books had been published in over 30 languages, from Albanian to Turkish. In the early years, many… — John Wiley and Sons Copy Share Image
“Immie put on her sunglasses. “Forrest’s writing a novel.” “What kind of novel?” asked Jule. “A little Samuel Beckett meets Hunter S.… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there. — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
“It is widely held among scholars that the Prologue is a preexisting poem that the author of John has incorporated into his… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
It's great to imagine and visualise while reading a novel. It doesn't always work for a film. 'Pavithra' had a good script… — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything,… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
