What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
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“There is something unspeakably consoling in one's own smile. In that reflection, you can discern the face of yourself as a child… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'You're Not a Stranger Here' by Adam Haslett - short stories, a lot of them are about mental… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
If familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We've seen from shows like 'Game of Thrones' that the book can become a seed, which you plant in the ground of… — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image
We Need To Talk About Kevin,' as an adaptation, was pretty major. It's a long book, and it's in letters, so it… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
People's live are expressed in little details…The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
“I don't know to what author you may be alluding, but believe me I feel what I think; and I seem to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“Do not give up because if you truly are persistent, you will succeed. Two things that helped me through those difficult times… — Caroline Porter Thomas Copy Share Image
If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time.… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“Virtually all the authors of popular books on the subject assert that ADD is a heritable genetic disorder. With some notable exceptions,… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn't tell you… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,'… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
“So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought.… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader.… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
“How can they possibly know such things? No member of this family reads novels, except for mass-market bestsellers, clichéd thrillers with contrived… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
It's more like I write multiple first drafts, handwritten. So with my first novel, I wrote whole drafts from different points of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That's not true. I was there to read a lot of books… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I read Matt Ruff's book, that was my first encounter with learning about sundown towns, and I was like 'What?' Like,… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
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