It's always been about shelf life. Long-term parking, not short-term. That's why I take the time that I do when I write. — Gza Copy Share Image
“I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation.” — Mary Howard Copy Share Image
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
It took me five or six years to write 'How Should a Person Be?' and there were many times when I felt… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Oddly, the anti-heroes of both 'The Chill' and veteran comics writer Peter Milligan's 'The Bronx Kill' share a first name, though their… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There are things written concerning you in the book of life; that you need to keep opening, till you discover them and… — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG'… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
“Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.” — Nick Lake Copy Share Image
“His intense devotion to reviewing contributed greatly to the expansion of his own research library. “A nice side-benefit is that the copies… — Hammann Konrad Copy Share Image
With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we… — David Milch Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask,… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way.… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it’s easy to fool yourself into believing you understand… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not… — William Osler Copy Share Image
When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.” — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism,… — Jo-Ann Mapson Copy Share Image
