Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
“So the Trustees of Ohio State were right in 1956 when they canned the English instructor for assigning Catcher in the Rye… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like… — Cath Staincliffe Copy Share Image
Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work,… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have anyone, but every time I walked through those doors I felt like each of those authors was my family… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most… — James M. Gavin Copy Share Image
“The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious.… — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us… — James Wood Copy Share Image
“when TV like the radio before it has been swallowed alive by the next big thing. My stories will still be here,… — Shawn Hilton Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice… — Stanley Ellin Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“Dewey Hall was the only building on campus not made of brick, and the tornado came for it in absolute maturity, no… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“♔ Writing is my passion. I never want to let it go. It may be short, Fan-Fiction or purely my own work.… — BritHoran Copy Share Image
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Randy does a sorting procedure on the diving books now: he ignores anything that has color photographs, or that appears to have… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert,… — Tim Waterstone Copy Share Image
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“There’s a sort of melancholy romance to the experience of being lonesome. I think of reading as a kind of romantic alone… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The office itself was windowless and lined with shelves stuffed to the brim with books each sporting titles more Hellish than the… — Jennifer Rainey Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
