The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful. I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library)… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“There are things written concerning you in the book of life; that you need to keep opening, till you discover them and… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself… — Yu Hua Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Whatever people may say about my books - and it always amazes me when people don't like them, but sometimes they don't… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created… — Anne Edwards Copy Share Image
“Walking across campus made me feel sad, and I thought to myself, I wasn't happy there. Then, after reading, we walked past… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
I've found a bit of success in my career, and I'm very relieved by it, but the success that comes after a… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total… — Nigel Kneale Copy Share Image
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Creation Here is an exercise that will assist you in your Deliberate Creating: Take three separate pieces of paper, and at the… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“In my head, owning a bookstore meant I could hide in the back reading all day, while other bookworms came and went… — Kristi Hayes Copy Share Image
The crazy thing is that when we go to somebody's house, what's better than looking at their bookshelves? Nobody's ever going to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“How does one develop compassion for someone with a completely different set of values without reading something from their point of view?… — Jennifer Steil Copy Share Image
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