“Thank you to Steve Iwanski and Turnrow Books for this fantastic review of THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY!! Cherise Wolas' debut novel… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
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He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
“Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight.… — Carolyn Cooke Copy Share Image
What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way.… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My process with starting a new project and whatnot is I begin around a title. Usually, based off of just a title,… — Alexander Spit Copy Share Image
“Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“What can we do, then, to recognize that yes, grading and its traditions are still present, but so is the writer? Feedback,… — Patty McGee Copy Share Image
Your first attempt will be terrible… Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft… Whenever someone… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
“The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
'The Giver' by Lois Lowry - I had to read this in school, and I fell in love with it. It was… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a… — Juliet Barker Copy Share Image
“Vic smelled the vast vault filled with books before she saw it, because her eyes required time to adjust to the cavernous… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, and I feel… — David Liss Copy Share Image
The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“When other children dreamed of mansions with fountains and big silky beds and servants to do their bidding, this was what Belle… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started,… — Sheila Hageman Copy Share Image
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a set of observable manifestations, as represented and frozen in language, that triggers a profoundly subjective and individual experience. Ultimately,… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
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