I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Gogol was usually the leading social poet, while Dostoyevsky usually the leading psychological poet. The former is known as the representative of… — Valerian Maykov Copy Share Image
“For there comes a time in the day’s occupations when old Money Writer falls so in love with an idea that he… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“There are days when I get lost in the business of surviving in this world. I stop and enter my closet of… — Marsha Gomes-Mckie Copy Share Image
I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
“When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on… — Nancy Moser Copy Share Image
The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the… — H. E. Bates Copy Share Image
I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
“What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
“Stories become great by hacking your brain. Nothing that happens in fiction matters. The people in fiction are fictional so their triumphs… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I like looking for myself in the whitest of pages. I like finding evidence of myself there, after being told my footprints… — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked.… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Attending a book group is always a salutary experience for a writer. There's no guarantee that the people there will have enjoyed… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“I write our names on the page. What of it, if the paper will be burned? I write our names in the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I Reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language,… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
