“I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“You think of me like a book?' 'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.” — Beatrice Colin Copy Share Image
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within… — Jennifer Murgia Copy Share Image
I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book?… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“There is an old-fashioned distinction between the novel of character and the novel of incident, which must have cost many a smile… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“This is the plot up to the moment when the writer leaves the woman still dolefully enmeshed in it, and, suitcase in… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“What are your favorite books? What do you dream about? Whom do you love?” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
“Books have the profound capacity to stay with us for the rest of our lives. That´s why I love them!!” — Sofia Camara Copy Share Image
“Problem with being a librarian is there's some lessons you just can't learn from books.” — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I have written in a lot of genres, that's true, and I'm not sure it's always served my career well. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
