I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children. — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“Writing is about you. Publishing is about the book. Marketing is about the reader.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the… — Caroline Rody Copy Share Image
As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“There were pencil scrawls and ink stains, dried blood, snack crumbs; and the leather binding itself was secured to the lectern by… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, many people suffer from BPS - Blank Page Syndrome. Let's face it: starting to write is scary. Seeing the cursor blinking… — Stefanie Weisman Copy Share Image
You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“If I write a book I do it mostly for myself for the child in me and for the adult in me.… — Tomi Ungerer Copy Share Image
“Writing a balanced, beautiful novel, where plot and character and setting and pacing and narrative structure and imagery and, above all, story… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
“...the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
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