'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
“I climb into my characters’ heads and live there while I write.” — Catherine Cruzan Copy Share Image
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“So you got Phoenix back,” declared Karla, clapping her hands in delight. “That’s lovely.” “I’m more on loan,” I muttered. “Yeah, my… — Joss Stirling Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there,… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
One shouldn't say yes in desperation to the first publisher who approaches. New authors especially should wait and weigh their deal and… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of… — Margaret Mazzantini Copy Share Image
“Speaking of libraries: A big open-stack academic or public library is no small pleasure to work in. You're, say, trying to do… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“When it comes to who will like your writing; the ones who will like it will like it because they can relate… — Beverly S. Harless Copy Share Image
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