The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“He said to me, ‘The book has found its reader,’ and what could I do but agree with him?” — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
“If you were a book, I’d read you, touch you, look at you every day and never get bored.” — Ella Fields Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always say it's a shame picture books get such a bad rep. Illustrations are tough to sell older kids on! — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along. — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
“When you can’t run and deliver like you used to, make sure your letters still bleed with imagery under the stampede of… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“The charm of your writing,” Evelyn Waugh once wrote to Mitford, “depends on your refusal to recognize a distinction between girlish chatter… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
“But the Library still held everything he’d ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“The book covers are a crucial part of my work - personally speaking. Particularly because, I cannot write a single word of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
“The digital book has no front or back covers; there is no place to assert ownership, and there is nothing to own.… — Alex Beam Copy Share Image
I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
