Travel to LA and maybe to the Bay. Come to Chi-Town, she might be out the states. Book a flight to London,… — Mindless Behavior Copy Share Image
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there,… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ...… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight… — Bethenny Frankel Copy Share Image
“It has been said that when we pray, we speak to God; when we read, He speaks to us. Keeping this in… — William A. Carroll Copy Share Image
I wasn't a huge fan of the comic book, but I definitely was of the cartoon series. I wasn't much for sitting… — Daniel Cudmore Copy Share Image
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction… — Doug Graham Copy Share Image
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I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Cormac McCarthy is my favorite author in the world. I love him so much. There's one book that informs me more than… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
“You're a talented artist," he began, and I burst into more tears. He jumped up, agitated, and tried to give the book… — Vicki Keire Copy Share Image
The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“You people do not have to live like this!" the man pleaded. "We are humans, made in the image of God. No… — Donald Allen Kirch Copy Share Image
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Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
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“Jean M. Twenge, a professor of psychology and the author of 'Generation Me' has persuasively argued that the youngest generations today—particularly anyone… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
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Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we can tell the stories, however bad they are, we don't belong to them anymore. They become ours. And maybe… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No books!” I exclaimed. “How do you contrive to live here without them? if I may take the liberty to inquire. Though… — Michaela MacColl Copy Share Image
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something… — John McEnroe Copy Share Image
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Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
