“She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.” — Manoj Arora Copy Share Image
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader. — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Mistake is a single page in a part of Life … but Relation is a book of dictionary ----- So don't lose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this… — John Farrar Copy Share Image
“For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I don't think it's people's utterances that limit the writing. It's the activity itself. It's actually pretty hard to convey to someone… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn,… — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
“Because there are a million thoughts that never sleep and a million more that wake up as each second passes by... And… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
