I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three. — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Every soul is a story shelved away in an infinite library in the sky.” — Karen Amanda Hooper Copy Share Image
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors. — Heather O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living. — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“As my friend, Herb Gardner, once said about writing, “Don’t they realize they’re paying us for doing something we’d be thrilled to… — David V. Picker Copy Share Image
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“But the editor in chief was already balding and worked a lot. He was at the mercy of his family and apartment.… — Ilya Ilf Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience,… — Quintin Jardine Copy Share Image
I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“To daughter Scotty Oct. 20, 1936 p. 313 Don't be a bit discouraged about your story not being tops. At the same… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there… — Robert Alter Copy Share Image
“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly… — L.R.Knost Copy Share Image
“You are my favorite book. I immerse myself in your story and fall in love with each page. I will never be… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“...I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping.” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.” — John McAleer Copy Share Image
“The best way for children to learn grammar is by making them habitual readers.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“I write, so that everyone else, can live. The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny” — Niedria Dionne Kenny Copy Share Image
I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.' — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature. — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
