I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids.… — Bill Peet Copy Share Image
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing with a partner is, in some ways, an easy but odd process. Two people come into a room and look to… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“The truth is out there, but the truth also seems to be very subjective. With access to so many types of information,… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I grow bored, pick up the pen and begin thinking. Thinking and writing because it's chasing a dream, hoping to be… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
“My advice for aspiring writers is simply this: NEVER GIVE UP. Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot achieve your… — Rachel Nicole Wagner Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
After my debut didn't go very well with Holt, I needed to be in a healthier head space. I was happy to… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Even though I'm an ordinary writer, I too, have trouble when it come to writing along the way. But at least I… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is… — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner… — Ana Tijoux Copy Share Image
A novel is not an allegory… It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it… — Sampha Copy Share Image
“A library is more than a brick and mortar building filled with delicious books. It is also a community of people who… — ALA Copy Share Image
I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders,… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
“History gives us the facts, sort of, but from literary works we can learn what the past smelled like, sounded like, and… — Scott Herring Copy Share Image
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of other people's folly, not to mention their avarice… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it… — Steven T. Seagle Copy Share Image
I think that writing is a process that tells you what you think. You sometimes actually don't know what your opinion is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“I was just turned last week. I'm a librarian." He stilled, as if I'd just told him I was the inventor of… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“I just...," Cath started again: "I realized that I'm not cut out for fiction-writing." Professor Piper blinked and pulled her head back.… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“This is what writing does to you: it makes you put everything under a microscope of metaphors and similes, surrounded by memories… — Ibraheem Hamdi Copy Share Image
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially… — Mark Romanek Copy Share Image
As a writer, I spend a lot of time alone, and I like it. I'm also a long-distance runner, and I love… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“In a library in Missouri that was covered with vines Lived thousands of books in a hundred straight lines A boy came… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
