To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer. — David Frum Copy Share Image
“What is the point of all these books when I learn best by reading your body?” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience. — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“Scary movies and books were too much for her—she read only romance.” — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
“The book is the most technologically advanced invention in the history of humankind.” — kambiz mostofizadeh Copy Share Image
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an… — Hallie Burnett Copy Share Image
I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
One of the things that has puzzled me the most in my years of serious mystery reading is why there are relatively… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“From The World's Strongest Librarian: To see the value of a library, ignore the adults. Find an inquisitive child who doesn't have… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“In approved places, every story serves a purpose. But forbidden books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
