“Receiving very little or no feedback from my writing I really don't know if people like it or if they are actually… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
I want the younger writer to know that she or he is meaningful, that what they have to say is powerful in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
“I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know we built our career almost on being a positive influence on people. But the truth is, that's not always the… — Ryan Key Copy Share Image
“Last month I was banging on about how books were better than anything—-how just about any decent book you picked would beat… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Everyone should try write two philosophical observations of about 300 words a day, to keep the brain fit. The brain is a… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man’s reason, his emotions, his nerves, his… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text.… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
“Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“There, I said to myself, are the reasons for the silence and darkness that surround the library: it is the preserve of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
“This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
My diaries are so important to me. If I lost them I would be heartbroken, because I keep a record of every… — Eddie Howe Copy Share Image
“In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential -- the one is… — Jeffery Farnol Copy Share Image
My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Between one dip of the pen, Petrarch writes, ‘between one dip of the pen and the next, the time passes: and I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is a most remarkable thing. I sat down with the full intention of writing something clever and original; but for the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town.… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
There was always that thing with 'Johnny' - I always saw myself as his writer and PR. But when he got out… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
The Catcher in the Rye had such a deep impact on me, because it felt like it was just Holden and me.… — Rowan Blanchard Copy Share Image
I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls… — Mark David Gerson Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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