The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
The record books aren't going to lie. They aren't going to say I sold out. They aren't going to say anything. — Sheamus Copy Share Image
Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.” — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Truth does not contain in a single thought, in a single book, in a single religion. — Leeramtan Copy Share Image
“No person or events mentioned in this book should be confused with real persons or events. Reality is far to strange for… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
I care a great deal about LGBT U.S. servicemen and women being able to serve openly and honestly. Since early in my… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
In my book, The Sins of Scripture, I traced the development of tribal religion, which included ideas like God's killing the Egyptians… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“My goal is to allow readers their own experience of whatever discovery I have made, so that it feels new to them,… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Why is so impossible to describe a book in a few words?” “That is one of the mysteries of writing. Legend has… — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
“{In the shadows where the ancestors sleep, the bird's song is young, but all else is old. Stillness surrounds me and I… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
One day, I found this book at a used bookstore with 'Satanic Bible' written on the cover, and I thought maybe I… — King Diamond Copy Share Image
“In any event, whether a supernatural tale remains altogether fantastic or eventually modulates to the uncanny or the marvelous, the reader is… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.' — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Look at the next chapter in your life as a fresh start, just because a book may not have a good beginning… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“As an author, this is my integrity question: 'If horses could read, would they approve of what I write?” — Joanne Verikios Copy Share Image
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something. — Todd Lowe Copy Share Image
“My Readers time is as important as mine. I try to write good things worth reading.” — Brenda Kay Winters Copy Share Image
Planning things is neither my cup of tea nor my choice. Same applies to books too. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Florence has a passion for books. When she saw the one she was seeking, she would recognize it, as if the volume… — Lily Koppel Copy Share Image
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
If you want to run the read option with your starting quarterback that's had two knee surgeries, that's on you. — Terrell Suggs Copy Share Image
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“Where the Word is applied, nothing can be done haphazardly, for God the Author knows how to dot the i’s and cross… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read into hardly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
