“If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Fiction is not fake, fiction is non-fiction in the wrong reality.” — Sara Koochagian Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“It's because of the way you are. It's why you're happy reading novels. You're only comfortable with a piece of the world… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“I aspire to be an inspirer, not a mentor. As such it would be fulfilling to know that someone read what I… — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words,… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
It was easy to get a job at the Cedar Bar because people came and went, but I didn't like the atmosphere.… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
“I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work… — Clifford Currie Librarian of the Ashmolean Library Oxford Copy Share Image
“Books and bookcases cropping up in stuff that I've written means that they have to be reproduced on stage or on film.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research,… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
