“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts,… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Leaving the page of the book carelessly open, something unsaid, the phone off the hook and the love, whatever it was,an infection. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you're never alone if you read.” — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden. — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material, I mean so many books and so much stuff about what they… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see;… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
A lot of times as an actor you watch a film it's like thumbing through a photo book from your past. It's… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again,… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies. — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Good night you Kings of New England. You Princes of Maine." Who knows what book this quote comes from?” — John Irving Copy Share Image
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise. — Kabir Copy Share Image
“you’ve been all black and white, like Kansas. It’s time to get back to Oz. Enjoy the colors.” — Kaje Harper Copy Share Image
Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers. — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“When panic sets in, my advice is to fast and read the Book of Mormon for at least a half hour.” — John Wright Copy Share Image
“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.” — Peggy Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't miss Mrs. Flowers, for she had given me her secret word which called forth a djinn who was to serve… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar. — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.' — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand. — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
