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
There's nothing illogical, it seems to me, about saying, 'I am going to care deeply about my work and my writing. I'm… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
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“Those other moments that I’ve been re-retuning to seem to fade a bit every time I go to them. It’s kind of… — Amy Huntley Copy Share Image
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“To live, fiction must be read, and to be read it must be enjoyed. Why do so many people talk about the… — Trevor Cole Copy Share Image
I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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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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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
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
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“A good book not only entertains you, but also informs you. And when you finish reading it,you feel as if you have… — Irish Argo Copy Share Image
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“Nick had cared about the story; Cath hadn’t. She’d cared about the writing. About the magic third thing that lived between them… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors,… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Cos it's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'Aaaaaagghhh!!' and everyone just stares at you.… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
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We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
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