I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
“Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?” — David John Richards Copy Share Image
“Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt…but do read...” — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born… — Edouard Bourdet Copy Share Image
“All of us and perhaps all of you read in childhood, while in school, that greatest of all monuments of ancient literature,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“So many signs exist today that you could write a book about them. In fact, I did, The Beginning of the End,… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words… — Timothy Schaffert Copy Share Image
I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books… — Jason Marsden Copy Share Image
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing… — Jean Leclercq Copy Share Image
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“She found it quite easy to interpret builders' estimates and do VAT calculations. She'd got some books from the library, and found… — Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied,… — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man… — Stephen J. Joyce Copy Share Image
You wake up, your life is discipline: there's kids, breakfast, lunch box, go to work, discipline, organization, guests. Imagine the semi-final of… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
“The book thief had struck for the first time - the beginning of an illustrious career.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Getting published - keep knocking on the door and never give up until it opens.” — Peter G. Jones Copy Share Image
For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Awesome piece of literature work can be found mostly in sad and angry hearts — Kevin Knight Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“She set her book carefully down, dog-earing a corner of her page with love.” — Sandhya Menon Copy Share Image
I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. — Moliere Copy Share Image
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly. — C. J. Cherryh Copy Share Image
Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
