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I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“This book is like any other book. But I would be happy if it were only read by people whose souls are… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Read a book, words by words, to find a story within and be amazed. Your heart will make that poor written book… — Adam Aksara Copy Share Image
Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It's interesting that reading, like listening to podcasts, is a lone pursuit, one where we keep our mouths shut and let someone… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“I write so others might contemplate things out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears, to… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be… — Chespirito Copy Share Image
I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
“Will found it funny that people balked at paying retail price for a book, something that a writer poured his or her… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“Top 3 favorite books? I love finding really great children’s books. My daughter was given "Pickle Chiffon Pie" which is so fantastic.… — Abbie Schiller Copy Share Image
There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
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I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly,… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“The study's small ventilation window bumped open, and Vin squeezed through, pulling in a puff of mist behind her. She closed the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Literature tried to open the universe, to increase, even if only slightly the sum total of what it was possible for human… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
I always, at least back then, struggled with emotion in writing. I felt like I could do odd, unusual things, but there… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“If you’ve never been, I encourage you to visit and tour the sandstone slot canyons in Zion National Park, where the history… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
