In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.' — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible,… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“A good book is a good friend. He will talk to you if you want him to talk, but will shut up… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“But to continue the story of my professional experiences. I made one pound ten and six by my first review; and I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If the director fired everyone here who might go mad, half the museum would be depopulated", Christine replied. She exaggerated, of course… — Jordan L. Hawk Copy Share Image
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there:… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
“You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
“But as my father told him, and as anyone who reads regularly might agree, the only thing that has to be similar… — Alice Ozma Copy Share Image
“To be taught to write or to speak — but what is the use of speaking if you have nothing to say?… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
