“-It was my library, now it's yours. Only yours. I want to cry and I can stand it. I know how much… — Benito Taibo Copy Share Image
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I try to treat writing as part of my daily routine: I write for at least two hours, five days per week.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?' Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been… — Phoebe Damrosch Copy Share Image
I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
“For years I've gathered various books, sources. When I was little it might have been Tolkien, and so I would have just… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into… — Christie Watson Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by those people who get up at 5 and write till 8 and then eat a peach and walk… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I would also write down my fears and look at them. When fears stay stuck inside your head, your imagination can go… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
“Lina had never seen anyone so disorganized as the doctor. She peeked into the medicine room once when the doctor was out… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
“There’s a bookcase lining an entire wall. By the window there’s an armchair and another lamp, with a stack of books illuminated… — Sally Thorne Copy Share Image
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In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“I love to read. However, there have been times when certain books did not resonate with me because the timing was off… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail -… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world is to write something critical about someone and then show up the next day in the… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics,… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for… — Paul De Man Copy Share Image
It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
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