The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“The book is a body and your mind will mold to its individual curves much in the way it will to any… — Yxta Maya Murray Copy Share Image
For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out. — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And, of course, there were some times when I had writer's block and I had a hard time figuring out how to… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
A book is full of ideas. You just live with what you read for so much longer. A lot of the times,… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth. — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“Knowing people can mean so many things. It's like books: there are plenty of gradations between the books one has read and… — Cécile David-Weill Copy Share Image
“Then Ruskin came. I showed him our small library. He looked at it with disapproving eyes. “ Each book ”, he said… — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
We can spend Rs 5,000 for a meal at the Taj and thousands on all kinds of shopping, but we're always stingy… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I do try to deliver a solid first draft, meaning it's my tenth or twentieth draft and then I call it 'first'… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid to write. It's so dangerous. Anyone who's tried, knows. The danger of stirring up hidden things - and the world… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments. — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done! — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth… — Wayne Martindale Copy Share Image
Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think it's good practice, if you're a writer, or anyone who's shaping narrative, to be flexible and open with the direction… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Accused of spreading pornography on the communications revolution, notat all fair, here are the best of literature available that you do not… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life. — William Styron Copy Share Image
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career and in my life where I can allow myself to write… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Writing/reading is like visiting another person's brain. And a short book or article is like a short stay. You come in, have… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
