My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me... →
David McCullough
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the... →
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
V. S. Naipaul
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that... →
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck -... →
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Taslima Nasrin
I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people.... →
Alexei Navalny
In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But... →
Liam Neeson