It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it! — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
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Only lawyers would refer to something as a brief that takes hours/days/weeks to write and is 30 pages long. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
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Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
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The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A book lay overturned on the floor beside the bed, its hard cover collecting dust. Great Expectations.” — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that… — Brian Moore Copy Share Image
“When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
My love was always in books. I was just one of those avid readers. Films came later, but the stories were always… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
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Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“marked #3. It was going to be her home for the next ten days, while she basked in the freedom to do… — C.J. Hunt Copy Share Image
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
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