Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money. — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
“A book is like the best friend you can imagine. Once you read a book, it stays with you forever.” — Jessica McCann Copy Share Image
I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer. — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there. — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters. — John Updike Copy Share Image
It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
“It is strange to hear my words Read back to me. I don't think I wrote them To have them ever leave… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
When I read War and Peace in Norway, really far away from humanity for a long time, it was such an amazing,… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
“There is an unbridgeable chasm between the book that traditions had declared a classic and the book (the same book) that we… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.… — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
