The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I just want to shout, "READ ALL MY FAVORITE BOOKS!” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I put Chap Stick on before I read, because my lips move along with my eyes. Maybe when I’m a stronger reader,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I use no figure of speech when I say that we may now buy our books in bulk. I saw, only this… — Adeline Knapp Copy Share Image
“Please stop patronizing those who are reading a book - The Da Vinci Code, maybe- because they are enjoying it. For a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want. — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
“It was always the bookish ones you had to be worried about. They knew shit.” — Linsey Hall Copy Share Image
This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories. — John Green Copy Share Image
I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
