“If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role… — Arinn Dembo Copy Share Image
“So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The simple fact is, the more people who buy your books, the more are likely to read you. That's what I'd like… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Peaky' is a very personal thing for me because it's based on stories that I was told as a kid by my… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a… — Rene Char Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's… — Dhanush Copy Share Image
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples.… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Life is like a movie. Just roll up a film. When you finish it, just be kind and rewind. Don't live it… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“After all, one of life’s best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“If the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictions.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks!… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust? — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“She would read anything from a dictionary to a treatise on turnips. Print fascinated her, dazed her, made her good for nothing...Kylie… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my… — John Waite Copy Share Image
Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
After watching 'Dangal,' I called my writer and told him that I wanted to do a sports film for Punjab because no… — Ammy Virk Copy Share Image
If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
If I'm really immersed in a story, I try to finish it in a few days. If it's a longer work, then… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“You have been around since scaly things crawled out of the muck, would it have killed you to read a book?” — Metatron Copy Share Image
“Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I have been writing stories and working on ideas for a long time. I like writing and reading a lot, so I… — Karan Wahi Copy Share Image
The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“You can tell almost as much about a person by what kinds of books they haven't read as you can by those… — Michael E. Weil Copy Share Image
At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be… — John McNally Copy Share Image
“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them… — Barbara Fister Copy Share Image
I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“What reading does...is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not sequenced of lived moments, but a destiny.” — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
