You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better. — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
“Closed books are like closed eyes—you must open them to see anything.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else” — Lee shippey Copy Share Image
The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“I thought I detected a bit of wonder in his voice, that he'd like to become part of a story, any story.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
“In towering letters Cicero’s words were engraved over the library entrance. Who knows only his own generation remains always a child.” — Linda Lafferty Copy Share Image
The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Maybe Laura’s real problem came in admitting this: there was nothing new under the sun. To write a story would be, somehow… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand… — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
