My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Great novels have great characterization no matter what. But multiple points of view let me examine characters from entirely different perspectives, allowing… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
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Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
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In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
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I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
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A couple of years ago I picked up New Yorker writer Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Heart That Bleeds," which is reportage from Latin… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
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Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
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Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
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