Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.' — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Splendid . . . a novel for anyone who has a sharp eye and ear for life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Here is my number 1 ingredient, write from experience, put who you're into what you write. I always write from the heart… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
“My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis… — Peter Prichard Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you read a great book at one point in your life then in another part of your life, when you read… — Keith David Copy Share Image
I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Book publishing is a passion that one hopes eventually becomes a good paying job.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. — Shmuel Niger Copy Share Image
When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark. — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
The publishing world has been very slow to adapt to the digital world. — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.” — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
