The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance.… — Linden MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.” — Jo Deurbrouck Copy Share Image
The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Life is like a 1,000 page book. You want to quit halfway through, but then you realize you have a lot left… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good book,… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape…For me life without reading would be like being in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“A ‘library’ turned out to be a room where books were read. The fact that people used to have so many books… — R. Lee Smith Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“Thus, although life is by and large unthrilling, when we do find ourselves in the sort of situation upon which thrillers dote… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“spending time in reading something you want to read is wayyyyy better than wasting time in reading something you should read. You… — Shohana Akter Copy Share Image
Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our… — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things. — James Salter Copy Share Image
A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
“I know from personal experience that readers lead richer lives, more lives, than those who don’t read.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
“The point of dreams was never to be the affordable option, it was the one everyone else saw as a mistake and… — Anastasia Bolinder Copy Share Image
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
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I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone… — Nasim Pedrad Copy Share Image
“I like books. I thought you liked books." "Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains. All that subtext and bullshit… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I feel comfortable in my own skin writing about the things that I like because I know that there are other people… — Shooter Jennings Copy Share Image
“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I'm reading a book and someone asks me what I'm reading, I don't answer. I just raise book up, so they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
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