“Starting a novel is like standing in a field and waiting for lightning to strike.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“My interest in books started as a child. I had a voracious appetite for reading. It’s my mom’s fault really, because she… — Catherine Cruzan Copy Share Image
I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
“I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Promoting my first novel has been a vulnerable experience. I know many artists and for the first time, I truly understand the… — Pádraig O'Gorman Copy Share Image
“So what if you burned a few books? Those librarians deserve it. When we're older, maybe we'll burn it to the ground… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“It was the worst--the bleakest, the most physically exhausting, the most emotionally enervating--writing experience I'd had...I felt, and feared, that the book… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“There was also a daughter, very short, very plump, very gay, an amazing production for the Gregorievitches. It was as if two… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the name of kings. Did the kings haul up… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.” — Paul Andreas Wunderlich Copy Share Image
When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I'm excited to share my first book 'HWPO.' It features workouts, training, nutrition, and mental approaches that paved the way for my… — Mat Fraser 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
“When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts. — Woody Allen 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
“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
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
I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
I wonder how people write exactly how they feel and give the reader the same feeling. Its a blessing!! — Farah Mustafa Copy Share Image
