As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery. — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.” — Tapan Ghosh Copy Share Image
The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world.… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“...don't be snowed by a handsome guy at a bookstore who quotes Cicero and Proust. They are often not the real thing.… — Jennifer Kaufman Copy Share Image
“No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“The supermarket shelves have been rearranged. It happened one day without warning. There is agitation and panic in the aisles, dismay in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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