I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish… — Craig Shaw Gardner Copy Share Image
I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“The Professor noted two nymphs with strawberries on their heads, a DayGlo Amish lady, a mustachioed man in a rainbow apron. He… — La Carmina Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot has changed - ebooks are a much more valid format and bigger presses are taking less chances.… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
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Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
“Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste… — L. M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Concentrate on sharpening your memory and peeling your sensibility. Cut every page you write by at least one third. Stop constructing those… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an… — Blake Morrison Copy Share Image
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game.… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
“Otherwise I risk ending up with a story whose voice doesn’t match its meat, which is just about the worst problem ever… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
...Generally people don't recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Keep your head down, fingers on the computer and write. Ignore the naysayers, the skeptics, the friends, church patrons or family members… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace.… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
Over the years, there certainly have been plenty of ideas that I've had and given up on, but for this one, the… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It would just be a pamphlet. Three pages. The first page would be Drugs I Have Taken and then a list. The… — Ryan Jarman Copy Share Image
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
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