I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I try to craft books that are fun, that are sort of subversively educational so kids learn but they don't really feel… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Book proposals are written like business plans. You need to identify your market, see what the competition is in the space, calculate… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me. I've left my chair, my house, my road, My… — Julia Donaldson Copy Share Image
The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's… — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
“A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up.… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“An increasing number of people are taking advantage of having a leg up on their competition by branding themselves as "the expert"… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There are three points of view from which a writer can be considered: he may be considered as a storyteller, as a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
“A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
“If you want to succeed as an author you need to work your ass off. Not only do you need to work,… — Chris Fox Copy Share Image
I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors. Sometimes it just comes out in the writing. I'll get an idea as… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
Writing for late night is really good for learning how to write when you don't want to write. You have to produce… — Michelle Wolf Copy Share Image
“What the best fiction does is make powerful affirmations of familiar truths...the trivial fiction which times filters out is that which either… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“I promote reading. I travel anywhere any time. In my books the indivuals face fears, issues, love, friendships, and are reminded qently… — Susan Kay Box Brunner Copy Share Image
“The thing about this bookshelf is that each of these books is a vast experience unto itself, while also being both self-contained… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been writing something when you just forgot where you were, and what time it was, and you kept diving… — Peter Gould Copy Share Image
“And this is the library,” Mrs. Simcosky said, leading Beth into a generous room with a fire flickering in a river rock… — Trish McCallan Copy Share Image
I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
I have my writing therapy. For me, writing and friends therapy is an internal journey where you go in deep, you reflect,… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
