“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
“I want to go somewhere good when I read, not into someone else's crappy life.” — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production,… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Time of course has showed the question up in all its young illogic. We can justify any apologia simply by calling life… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“There is something unique about the size, and shape, and feel of a real physical book, and there is a real discovery… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
“Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Every good book should take you to a brand new world: enjoy the journey!” — Lynn Hardy Copy Share Image
Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I always write from my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.” — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself. — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that books are better than life! That's why they're books!” — Shainee Gabel Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why I have to write down my fucking thoughts. What if I don’t have any thoughts?” — Wade Kelly Copy Share Image
Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
