“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
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The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I told myself that if I hoped to write a book that helped people to take a good look at some of… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
“Reading Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë after Jane Eyre is a curious experience. The subject of the biography is recognisably the… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I always tried, in the books I wrote, to make it clear: Thin is not the goal. But I was thin. So… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
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Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Everything is Flammable was the first full-length book I was able to finish. I started a couple others, but ran out of… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
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Don't listen to anyone's advice. Listen to your baby ... There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
“Proust is famous for his rhapsodies on hawthorns but his book has only three of these, whereas there are thirteen scenes in… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
There’s no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem… — Mark Earley Copy Share Image
Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“You must be. Why else would you break into a library? Unless…do you hawk the books?” “What? No! First of all, what… — K.M. Shea Copy Share Image
I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry… — Georgie Henley Copy Share Image
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
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When I was little I used to wish I could talk to the illustrators because I wanted to discuss something about the… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
“Some Christians pretend that Christianity was not established by the sword; but of what period of time do they speak? It was… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
