“Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.” — Amaya Ellman Copy Share Image
“Most of the books published these days consist of a series of whines followed by an epiphany.” — Rabih Alameddine 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
Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write. — Jack London Copy Share Image
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Books are better friends than people at times. They do not threaten you, unless that feeling means you're anticipating the next event. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache,"… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society,… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on… — S. Ansky 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
No one is saved by mere talk and speech, nor by reading loads of books. — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
“Being self-published makes me no less "published" than the authors who are with publishing companies.” — Adrienne Thompson 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
Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life. — Cassandra King Copy Share Image
How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
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