Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
We definitely need to give so much more importance, relevance, pay, glory to the writers because they are really the backbone of… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to read too many good books when quite young. A man once told me that he had read… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Today was so pointless that when I tried to write about it a moment ago, my pen ran out because it couldn't… — Tim Collins Copy Share Image
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Where are your books? - that light bequeathed To beings else forlorn and blind! Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed From… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
A friend is like a book that has to be read to appreciate its beauty. As such, you're one of the finest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
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I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
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