The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place. — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I can say without doubt, that reading has had a huge influence on my life. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.” — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
“I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try… — Isabel Burton Copy Share Image
There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Books you have read share a deep ontological similarity with books you haven't: both can be profoundly fuzzy. At times books you… — john durham peters Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
