There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
“Libraries are congenial places but unfortunately none of us like these places because we hates books and books are leading us to… — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise,… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time.… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with… — Susan Coolidge Copy Share Image
Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“No, I am just writing this because, sometimes, you’re still all I have to write about. Sometimes you’re the only thing that… — Moriah Pearson Copy Share Image
O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy… — Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy Copy Share Image
Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing… — Hillary Carlip Copy Share Image
I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my life preferring books to people,” Irene said sharply. “Just because I like a few specific people… — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
“At College, you know, we just started automatically writing the kind of essays that got good marks and saying the kind of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Books don't need to be published," Lars Högström said. "The main thing is that they should be written.” — Torgny Lindgren Copy Share Image
Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident. — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life. — Margaret Forster Copy Share Image
“I might also say, regarding reviews and reviewers, that I have yet to read a review of any of my own books… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to… — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
