“Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I… — H.P Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
“as Flannery O’Connor put it, “In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your… — Joe Copy Share Image
“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“In approved places, every story serves a purpose. But forbidden books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I don't understand the feeling of, the way people speak of writing as though it were, like, some kind of djinn to… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“From The World's Strongest Librarian: To see the value of a library, ignore the adults. Find an inquisitive child who doesn't have… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Lately, because computer technology has made self-publishing an easier and less expensive venture, I'm getting a lot of review copies of amateur… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“I had written short stories that were thought worthy of preservation! Was it the same insignificant I that I had always known?… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story;… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do,' Arkadian Porpirych says. 'What statistic allows one… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin's sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit's famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction.… — Peter David Copy Share Image
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“She did find that the books displayed prominently in every chamber had been dusted, but the spines were pristine and uncreased. They… — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals"… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
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Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our… — David Parnas Copy Share Image
“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
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