“Like every fiction, Holly Golightly was a composite of multiple nonfictions.” — Sam Wasson Copy Share Image
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It has become unecesssary for the police to ban books: their price alone bans them.” — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I am promoting My Wonderful Wobbly Life, the ebook is available at Bookbaby free when the coupon number VCU5DV is quoted at… — Charles Irwin Copy Share Image
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read. Books that had already… — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch,… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I dont want to be a book, When you dont know the story what so ever, I dont want to be your… — Myothersweetangel199 SparklingAngel25 Copy Share Image
“Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need… — Olaotan Fawehinmi Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“A microphone is to a comic, what a pen is to a writer. There's power in it.” — Pamelar Hickinson Copy Share Image
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“It is always more pleasant to meet with one who is a bookman than with one who is not.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product. — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
“One might be well read but surely has not read it all. So chill you are at par.” — Talees Rizvi Copy Share Image
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Look for your heros in the books people write, not in the people who write books.” — Ozzie Cheek Copy Share Image
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
