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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.” — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
“A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you.” — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
“Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean the end of the book.” — Edenia Archuleta Copy Share Image
It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“So what's this about a book club? You girls sit around, reading dirty books, fanning each other's vaginas? Because if so, count… — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“…Mrs. Jo sat smiling over her book as she built castles in the air, just as she used to do when a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
There's a great joy in writing about a place you know very well, but there's also a lot of responsibility in trying… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your… — Tim Wynne-Jones Copy Share Image
Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“Write the tests first, or second, or third. But write the darned tests.” — Russ Olsen Copy Share Image
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Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three — Italian Proverb Copy Share Image
If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
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