“With its weight and solidity, a book signals to the world that there are ideas worth preserving in a form that carries… — Steven L. Carter Copy Share Image
“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they… — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know,… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“Time of course has showed the question up in all its young illogic. We can justify any apologia simply by calling life… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“There is something unique about the size, and shape, and feel of a real physical book, and there is a real discovery… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there… — Robert Alter Copy Share Image
“Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“To daughter Scotty Oct. 20, 1936 p. 313 Don't be a bit discouraged about your story not being tops. At the same… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly… — L.R.Knost Copy Share Image
“You are my favorite book. I immerse myself in your story and fall in love with each page. I will never be… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Oh but to write what you think is so amazing- whoosh, whoosh, you don't even know how you're doing it and suddenly… — Nescio Copy Share Image
I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
