“Never loan a book. You might never get it back in the same condition that you loaned it.” — Monique Gordon Copy Share Image
“It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.” — Blanche E. C. Dugdale Copy Share Image
Neal Shusterman is a phenomenal writer, he's known for his young-adult books. — Cherie Currie Copy Share Image
“The moment I started reading, I was no longer in my bedroom, no longer sad, no longer even myself.” — Katrina Leno Copy Share Image
I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if someone doesn't like it, or just likes it for me, storytelling has been the one true love story of my… — Kelly Marie Tran Copy Share Image
For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers. — Joni Rodgers Copy Share Image
[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely… — Peter Tait Copy Share Image
“Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Now, my all-time favorite accolade from a book reviewer was when Fernanda Pivano, Italy’s best-known critic, wrote in a leading Italian newspaper… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“During my convalescence I had bought and read for the first time, The King in Yellow. I remember after finishing the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations.… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image