The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
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I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
“Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.” — Nancy Holmes Copy Share Image
I read Stephen King a lot and I've actually played two roles. Delores Claiborne is my favorite, I think, of any film… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you. — Susan Wallace Copy Share Image
The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
“At the beginning, the author's writing was like a selfie: a disposable plea for attention that was all about him and his… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
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The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
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Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
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Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something. — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Noooo They can't burn up Books aren't any good when they're well done You can't cook them that long” — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.' — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
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Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Every writer follows a theme, and mine is survival. If you can't figure out what a writer's theme is, look at the… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
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