“I was so sure this was different, the kind of story they made movies and books about, but in the end it… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“In literary practices the idea of a single subject is also all-powerful. It is uncommon for books to be signed. The concept… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Loving humans means writing poems & songs novels & plays, slogans, chants & protest signs our critics want to stone us for… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes.… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But I do want to take my life's work right now, today—whether it's a book I'm writing or a phone call I'm… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
I went to so many sleepovers where these parents were reading the 'Book of Revelation' before bed and things like that. I… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
The two mistakes that come to mind are people who introduce a flood of characters in the first few pages. Where the… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I… — H.P Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You… — Mary Wells Lawrence Copy Share Image
Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr.… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“For some days before, as well as for some nights, Vincent had observed a shadow about the quays. First because it had… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“It is hard for me to believe that Miss Groby ever saw any work of literature from far enough away to know… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“You know, for someone who holds a position of legal authority as high as yours, you sure do like to throw away… — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it.… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
“Writers do not write what they want, they write what they can. When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
When somebody's face-to-face with you saying, 'I may not have been here had I not read your book,' how do you respond… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I still have no choice but to bring out Minerva instead.” “But Minerva doesn’t care about men,” young Charlotte said helpfully. “She… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that,… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Here’s the thing, Judy. Here’s the thing we have to look at and accept. For you, I was a chapter—a good chapter,… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
“Reading's ability to beam you up to a different world is a good part of the reason why people like me do… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
