“like a book with nothing on its pages but the promise of an amazing sequel.” — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves.” — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Once I have a story idea I like it doesn't even matter to me what genre it is, I'm just so happy… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I stopped reading William Faulkner because it's hard work. I want to read a good writer, but I also want to read… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“The disadvantage of reading aloud remained the fact that it took longer. But books read aloud also stayed long in my memory. عيب القراءة بصوتٍ عالٍ أنها تستغرق وقتاً أطول، لكن الكتب المقرؤة بصوتٍ عالٍ أيضًا تظلَّ فترة في ذاكراتي .” — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
“Recognising such dimensions implicit to the reading experience can distract from the immediacy of our response; it can substitute literary archaeology for… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write. — Jack London Copy Share Image
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Being self-published makes me no less "published" than the authors who are with publishing companies.” — Adrienne Thompson Copy Share Image
No one is saved by mere talk and speech, nor by reading loads of books. — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at. — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life. — Cassandra King Copy Share Image
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
