Describing Wallace Stegner as an 'author' is like describing a grizzly as 'brown.' — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like its all perfectly normal in the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge. — Donna Pomona Copy Share Image
“The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
“Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: ‘When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“The Commissioner went away, taking three or four of the soldiers with him. In the many years in which he had toiled… — Chinua Achebe (Author Copy Share Image
It's been a challenge for me my whole life in that my insides don't necessarily match my outsides... People try to strike… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
“You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I separate myself from my characters as much as possible, but I have these books that I create which are interactive diaries/timelines/memory… — Sydney Sweeney Copy Share Image
“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
“Lacey-girl, books take you anywhere. Any place you want to go. You remember that always.” — Carol Lynch Williams Copy Share Image
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me. — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
First published in 1956, 'Rum Doodle' is a parody, I suppose, of the old-school mountaineering books of the time. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.” — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Professor and author Dr. Calvin Miller writes this word of caution: “Remember anything more important than God to you, is god to… — Diane Moody Copy Share Image
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the… — Charlie "Tremendous" Jones Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain’s words: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” — Alan Russell Copy Share Image
“For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later. — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
