What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“Well, he began, since we're talking about books, there is a book in my story.” — Alexis M. Smith Copy Share Image
As a writer, I use improv to write. Exploring characters and stories through improv and sitting at the computer and thinking about… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about,… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death. — Hallie Burnett Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking about becoming a children's writer. I just have an idea and if it sounds like a kids' book I'll… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In his exciting debut novel, Jerel Law transports readers to a place where supernatural forces of good and evil collide. Young readers… — Robert Whitlow Copy Share Image
This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
“It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It… — Al Silverman Copy Share Image
The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Grace had read that the Spenser children followed a strictly macrobiotic diet—or that ultimate manifestation of New York real estate porn, the… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“The Seven Warning Signs I Might Have a Bad Idea: ► Fear of telling anyone about it ► Fear it might be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Чтение-вот лучшее учение!(Reading is the best doctrine!)” — Александр Сергеевич Пушкин Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin Copy Share Image
Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“In this huge old occidental culture our teaching elders are books. Books are our grandparents!” — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“You recently read others books, yet someday, make sure that they definitely read your books.” — Pilo Poly Copy Share Image
I found that there was this way for me to feel a little bit more empowered by writing my own stuff. — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Pfft. I'm not healthy; I'm a writer, goddamnit! Get with the program. — Universalclockwork Copy Share Image
“Do not ask intelligent rich people what car they driver, but what books they read.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
