The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.” — Thomas A Kempis Copy Share Image
I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my lifeand, sometimes, to escape it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels. — Heather Donahue Copy Share Image
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“a moving river of light that flowed above the dark water like its negative image and attained a transient and fragile dominion… — William Gay Copy Share Image
I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio. — Juice Newton Copy Share Image
“This is my final book. Any subsequent productions bearing my name will have been composed by a ghost.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“As Don Everts says in his book Jesus with Dirty Feet, “Referring to the church as a building is like referring to… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. Some chapters sad, some happy, and some exciting. But if you never turn the page, you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen… — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." -C.S. Lewis” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.” — Jill Telford Copy Share Image
“Malaysians don't like to read. If you're reading this, you must not be liking it, or not Malaysian.” — Brian Yap Copy Share Image
“The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Life is like an open book. We always turn to new pages and grow into new chapters, but we always hope that… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind's eye always with a book in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“If you don't want to keep him, then pretend he's a book. Enjoy him for two weeks, then return him” — Shannon Stacey Copy Share Image
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
