“Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.” — Amaya Ellman Copy Share Image
“A good book is a good book, I’ve always thought, whatever the genre.” — Miranda James Copy Share Image
“like a book with nothing on its pages but the promise of an amazing sequel.” — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is. — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to… — Ann Packer Copy Share Image
“The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Some writers refuse to lay their heads peaceably on the pillow of literary history in order to give posterity good dreams." --… — of the works of Knut Hamsun (26 nov 1998 James Wood review in London Review of Books Copy Share Image
I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job,… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years. — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“Books have a publishing standard, and every Indie Author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or… — Eeva Lancaster Copy Share Image
“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
My idea was always to start with a small press and then move up to a national press. I had those goals… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
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