If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I believe everything is autobiographical. If it's not strictly about you, it's your peers, your obsessions, things that make you angry, or… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I am not sure I knew what I was doing, writing an "apocalypse" novel, when I started this book. Now that the… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
“He wrote a book, Libraries of the Future, in which he described a world where library resources would be available to remote… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
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This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
Read Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande. Then do what it says, including the tasks you think are impossible. You will particularly… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
My goal for children's books is to have them become tableside or bedside classics. To me, it would be awesome to write… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
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As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't now whether I am a poet or not, but I'm quite sure that I write with the transparency of the… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been… — Roberta Gellis Copy Share Image
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I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit.… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
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