As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Oh, 'Pandaemonium', by Chris Brookmyre! Just fabulous - such a layered, beautifully structured, engaging, intelligent book. I love all Chris's stuff, but… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“During his reading hours, which were between one and five o'clock in the morning, but not every morning, he had come to… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“Can I possibly be a good writer if I'm not healed form the story I'm telling? Will I be able to go… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
“When we knowingly write in ways that we would not want others to write to us, we abrade the trust that sustains… — Joseph M. Williams Copy Share Image
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I suppose I was interested in checking out as much about writing as I could: bad, weird, irritating,… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees… — John Green Copy Share Image
We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
“Does anybody else find it annoying when you put a hold on like 5 books but it takes like a month for… — Ling Copy Share Image
“Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.” — David Gordon Copy Share Image
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my… — Cher Lloyd Copy Share Image
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process. — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
Trace of Magic caught me up fast and pulled me in tight for a fun, action-and-sass adventure full of deadly magic and… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
“Most of my writing is emotionally autobiographical. You’ve got to pull up the things that mean something to you in order for… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.” — Michelle D. Kwasney Copy Share Image
“A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner. It is much better to confine yourself to a… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I slammed the book shut and and crowed, 'And that is why you don't kick the librarian off the investigation!” — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write from a reactive place. I think you just write the thing you want to write about,… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
