I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“By all means," said Richard. "Let's talk about something other than books. Something safer. Like politics or religion.” — Charlie Hill Copy Share Image
Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.' — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
“Some people work for the money they can earn doing what they do. Others work because of a love of what they… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework,… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of… — Carlos María Domínguez Copy Share Image
Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one. If adults… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
“In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in… — Manu Herbstein Copy Share Image
It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes… — Stephen Cosgrove Copy Share Image
I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it,… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think… — David Small Copy Share Image
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you. — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
“Personally, I don't plan to retire from writing. My plan is to visit a body editor, have them slap on a hot… — R. Rose Copy Share Image
None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback.… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom - I read it in eight hours and blubbed my eyes out… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The artist, in making victims of his muses, remasters himself as a hero, saving them from their otherwise inconsequential lives.” — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
