“And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I write by hand in my notebooks and number the drafts, so I know how crazy I can get with this. Some… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and then go… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
There was a little movie I did called 'Women In Trouble' that a friend of mine made. That, to me, was a… — Sarah Clarke Copy Share Image
Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
Reading is always a way of forming a bond with other people. I'm not very good at socializing - I quite like… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“His life and family circle changed considerably between 1900 and 1905. In February 1903, Proust's brother Robert married and left the family… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
“What is it, Master Calligrapher, that little girls do in the way that spiders weave?" sleeve asked primly. The Calligrapher coughed, for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“though books, as Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are also the resurrection of rebellious, reactionary, fantastical, and… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I keep a couple of notebooks too into which I record ideas for story titles or characters or situations, and these notes… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
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If readers like The Thorn and the Blossom, which I would call literary fantasy, I think they would like books such as… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
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The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
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That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I… — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
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“I am developing new coping mechanisms for lost words and lost negatives, as here for instance: compensate by describing the episode instead.… — Moyra Davey Copy Share Image
As writers and readers, we're drawn to conflict. It's that ancient theory of plot that's written on the whiteboard during every fiction… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money,… — Dagobert D. Runes Copy Share Image
Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
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