Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books? — William Targ Copy Share Image
... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at. — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old… — Richard Harding Davis Copy Share Image
I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong. — Tyler Joseph Copy Share Image
The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, 'Well, obviously… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full… — Virgil Suarez Copy Share Image
I've been reading Tanith Lee since I was a teenager, beginning with 'The Birthgrave' and 'The Storm Lord.' Only recently did I… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Andras Riedlmayer described a colleague who survived the siege of Sarajevo. In the winter, the scholar and his wife ran out of… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Books suggest the inner light and the method of bringing that out, but we can only understand them when we have earned… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
