I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books--the one true love… — Bookends Jane Green Copy Share Image
Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the… — Gavin Lyall Copy Share Image
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely,… — Adam Rex Copy Share Image
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“The library at Pemberley was as freely open to her as it was to Darcy, and with his tactful and loving encouragement… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head. — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“What capacity could have renovated your brain, endowing you with new, specialised skills as well as inducing specific codnitive deficits? This exotic… — Joseph Henrich Copy Share Image
“Thackeray is careful not to present a protagonist who is malevolently evil from birth; to trace a figure like this is unrewarding… — Martin J. Anisman Copy Share Image
“The essence of writing? A hound chasing a fox: irrationally compelled to win the prize and eventual disappointment that it's eluded you.” — Carol Morgan Copy Share Image
“Away I turned, from the ghosts that brought me to this place. From an insatiable desperation to be wanted and my urge… — Jennifer Irwin Copy Share Image
Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over… — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!” — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I was full time on 'Party of Five' for one year, then more like a creative consultant for two years, where I… — Susannah Grant Copy Share Image
But there's no one here. There's just books. I mean it's not the books, is it? I mean it can't be the… — Donna Noble Copy Share Image
“It’s a shame they do that,” he says, thumbing through the pages. “Requirement ruins even the best of books.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Mostly I've just been stealing little moments for myself in order to write - in the bathroom at a hotel, or just… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff. — James Mercer Copy Share Image
A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
