The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“We’d each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya’s was sleep. Mine, as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Never loan a book. You might never get it back in the same condition that you loaned it.” — Monique Gordon Copy Share Image
You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important,… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I did not buy a book called Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson, which has the temerity to compare itself, on the… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“The first time I read Isaac Babel was in a college creative writing class. The instructor was a sympathetic Jewish novelist with… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“When my father was a young man, during the years of the First World War and long before there was any inkling… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It's easy to be pessimistic. Nobody needs to be taught how. You don't need to buy a book on it. You don't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
“What is my favorite part of book one? It would have to be the last chapter because that’s when the consequences catch… — E.J. Caulder Copy Share Image
“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
“The trick isn’t to simply publish a book; the trick is to produce a quality book package to surround the book’s content” — hank quense Copy Share Image
“I look back now with amazement at the small accidents that put certain books before me.” — Vince Passaro Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“You feel like if they just read the manual first ... If we had a manual, that is.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a radio thing that's narrative, it's quite nice to stop for an hour and write a load of garbage… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“The future is not like a book one can read,” he said quietly. “It is ever changing, like the rush of water,… — Christie Golden Copy Share Image
“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not… — Brian Dunning Copy Share Image
“but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
“I'd curl up with a good romance book with my current book boyfriend and pretend the real world didn't exist for a… — Jen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
“How and where authors connect with their readers will affect how and when readers buy.” — Bernadette Baker-Baughman Copy Share Image
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.” — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“A writer must write from the heart, that is the only way that for readers to see the passion of our work.” — Cornelius D. Jones Copy Share Image
“decide which target prospects to pursue and build a book of business from scratch.” — Mike Weinberg Copy Share Image
