I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-without my even having… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“What is a writer? A writer is a magician who can create a masterpiece With a wave of a pencil A writer… — Carol Archer Copy Share Image
The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: I’d love to write a book. BOOKSELLER: Then you should write one. CUSTOMER: I really don’t have the time. BOOKSELLER: I’m… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't know why people do not read 'Mein Kampf' more regularly. It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
And I desperately needed books that would take me out of my environment and show me a world where being smart and… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Oh god, Anabeth,” Ellie muttered. “Your whole life is based around sex.” “So?” she shot back. “It’s better than having sex with… — Madeline Sheehan Copy Share Image
“The one critisism the author of Slaugherhouse-Five would make of the young writer was what he called a punctuation problem. Mr. Vonnegut… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it weird?” he said, glancing up as I measured salt. “All the variety that life offers? Here we sit, me reading… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you -… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future,… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
“loved coming here. It always felt so…safe. I was allowed to read any book I wanted. No one interrupted me, or if… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“The effectiveness of an author turns chiefly upon his getting the reputation that he should be read. But by practicing various arts,… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“We would bestow some pains here in minutely describing all the mad pranks which Jones played on this occasion could we be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“I think that’s why I love to read. I’ll read almost anything—mystery, suspense, slice of life—but what I really love is romance.… — S.T. Prussing Copy Share Image
I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they… — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
You can't judge a book by its cover, though. People think I'm bad because I got tattoos or snort a little cocaine… — Gunplay Copy Share Image
“Rachel Renée Russell is an attorney who prefers writing tween books to legal briefs. (Mainly because books are a lot more fun… — Rachel Renée Russell Copy Share Image
When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
When it comes to music, movies, literature, paintings, and even Bikram yoga, it's pretty easy to have an opinion about whether something… — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“If you read a book set in Kars and put me in it, I'd like to tell your readers not to believe… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I so want to give him my notebook--I want to be a real person--he should read my book--I work for him, I… — Irmgard Keun Copy Share Image
