The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges. — Nancy Byrd Turner Copy Share Image
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I recently enjoyed Always Happy Hour by Mary Miller and Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh—both dark, strange, a bit uncomfortable,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
There are two things in your life which no one can take from you. One is your education, and the other is… — Sangram Singh Copy Share Image
“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The… — George L. Kline Copy Share Image
I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“Productivity, I discovered, is a broad church that tolerates many creeds. Some successful academics write daily, others sporadically; some at home, others… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the… — Ben Yagoda Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. — John Green Copy Share Image
For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience. — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing,… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
“Of course, the marvels you hoped to find might not be waiting inside the covers, so then you closed the book, sorry… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place… — Anamika Mishra Copy Share Image
“The old lady goes back to her paperback (it's Fifty Shades of Grey, and not her first trip through it, from the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.” — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
I've always liked an easygoing, colloquial style. I like the kind of reviewer who is essentially a fellow reader, an enthusiast, a… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why theyre writing at… — Lizz Clements Copy Share Image
“The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay… — Martina Tutková Copy Share Image
I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
“I could spend the rest of my life READING, Just satisfying my CURIOSITY - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Material Witness - book 1 (**Named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2012) Nothing But Trouble (Contemporary Western Romance)” — Lisa Mondello Copy Share Image
Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
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