“She referred to the library, any library, as a sanctuary. She made a point of visiting them when we were on vacation,… — Abby Fabiaschi Copy Share Image
I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer,… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re- reading the last one. Sometimes you have to forget… — Keren Zhims Copy Share Image
“A struggling writer, 'I get hundreds of rejection letters each day. I am depressed with this life, Can you please help?' The… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to… — Elliot Mabeuse Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Self publishing' is not as easy as it is portrayed! When you think you have finished your book, proof read, proof read… — Phil Simpkin Copy Share Image
Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Personally, Vin didn't find the library's location nearly as asuming as its contents. Or, rather, lack thereof. Though the romm was lined… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a… — Robert McCloskey Copy Share Image
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“As a volunteer reader to the blind, Babette had some reservations about the old gent's appetite for the unspeakable and seamy, believing… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Let's not get so ecstatic we ignore the fiscal situation. As my agent so delicately pointed out, most novels--providing they get published--net… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Horace Greeley cautioned one upstate hopeful: “You do not realize how little the mere talent of writing well has to do with… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Cat Rambo: Where do you think the perennial debate between what is literary fiction and what is genre is sited? Norman Spinrad:… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
I'm tempted to say that the top three reasons for hopelessness are rejection, rejection, rejection. But let's cast our net wider. 1)… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really… — Jewel Copy Share Image
It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I have no personal knowledge of, or experience with, paramilitary hate groups, or heart transplantation, or escapees from maximum security prisons, or… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I like books that fit in pockets, which can lead to love, give, turn a corner, give, buy back preferred to read… — Mathias Malzieu Copy Share Image
