“The most familiar of all advice on writing is the old classroom cliché “Write what you know.” It is very much a… — Stephen Koch Copy Share Image
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I want to be really clear about something: I think we kind of fetishize the creative life. We have the vision of… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Quote from James Patterson's book "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas" "Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position… — Mark Pesce Copy Share Image
I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
“Rissa Kerguelen by F. M. Busby. I read this now largely forgotten science fiction book at about the time I was starting… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Run a test. Give a 5-year-old a printed book and an iPad and see what happens. That 5-year-old is going to go… — Dan Poynter Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“I get most of my inspiration from two places: my own life, and reading. I read widely—in my genre (romance), and in… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , which Smith published in 1776, is the most… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
I am touched by my readers who loved my books. All the stories are true incidents in life. Now I have realised,… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“Every reader of a newspaper felt that the more he or she heard about what was doubtful, sensational, and unsavoury, the better… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It's a constant struggle in the comic community to be considered a book and to be considered art, but it's just as… — Lights Copy Share Image
“I wonder what it is about a certain novel that ticks the boxes for a reader. I mean, for me, a story… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“Eucalyptus. Murray Bail. Someone told me that this was a great novel so I bought it, but then I discovered that it… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“Good afternoon, Sasha,” Finn replied, curiously eyeing the black book under his arm. The picture on the cover was of two pale… — Emigh Cannaday Copy Share Image
I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
She know me like a book, its too easy to read my ass unhappy stressed, yelling dont mislead my ass I mean… — Jcole Copy Share Image
“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the creation of the author or are used fictitiously. Any… — Laurie LeClair Copy Share Image
“4. You've had enough of the big city and decide to return home. Waiting for a bus, you pick up a discarded… — Steven Moore Copy Share Image
“The above two quotes are indeed in the book Supernormal, but they are not by Dean Radin. The first is a quote… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
“But what might be written in the book which had rounded its edges off in his pocket, she did not know. What… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, it was endorsed by the American Management Association, and consequently… — Steven Fink Copy Share Image
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job,… — Howard Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“The other attack going viral on tumblr at the moment is that I write novels about broken people who need saving, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
What drove me to do 'Dead Wake' was that after doing the most preliminary of reading and scoping out what kinds of… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
