When I read Deborah Brenner's book 'Women of the Vine' about women wine makers, I was impressed that many of the women… — Rebecca Pidgeon Copy Share Image
“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
At a certain point in the writing of any book, you become absolutely certain that it's terrible and is only getting more… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I have had a lot of dreams come true as a writer... I've gotten to work with artists I adored as a… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
It starts with the writing. We have to think of all these characters - we have to treat them all equally. We… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
“The estrangement between Edwards and his people began in 1744, in connection with a case of discipline in which a large number… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The titles of his books are recorded as follows: The Twelve Caesars; Royal Biographies; Lives of Famous Whores; Roman Manners and Customs;… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Something else apart from this heady fusion draws us in to Nile Shadows, though, and that’s a certain compulsive quality that, as… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
“I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
“And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“This is something I've learned from writing my own short stories, novels and screenplays. Editors and film producers will often keep asking… — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize… — Javier A. Robayo Copy Share Image
“No, I have as yet said nothing, or, rather, said only bookish words... and in the end the logical thing would be… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I like to skip prewriting. I love just jumping into the actual writing process. Then I revise/edit and fix what I need… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“Is this a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?” The reader has a perfect right to ask the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don’t they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with… — Shawn L. Bird Copy Share Image
“And he gave me a few of the Xeroxed sheets of paper lying on the table in front of him. As he… — Milorad Pavic Copy Share Image
“An essay course started at the Academy, I wrote about Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, one of the books I was really… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I asked you out. I was drunk. I was at Tric and Haley gave this carpe diem speech...the kind that… — Mouth McFadden Copy Share Image
“Much like books, she could tell how voiceless things had provided a brand of companionship more compatible to his nature than human… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
“For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um...… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
I agree that we should regard all books of the Bible as equally inspired - and important. But some come into sharp… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
