I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“I used to say that the greatest gift you could ever give anyone is a book. But I don't say that anymore… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills… — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to examine and difficult to speak for other writers, but when I look at my own writing there… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn’t realized it (the original book) had survived, so… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I love to write. I'm not necessarily a joke writer, but I think I can find a lot of comedy in humanity,… — Heidi Gardner Copy Share Image
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When a writer with a voice as good as Richard Christian Matheson's tells you something, you have no choice but to listen.… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't… — David St. John Copy Share Image
“External motivation is usually the most important to establish early in the book. Internal motivation can take a bit longer to develop… — Debra Dixon Copy Share Image
“Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“I'm one of those people who, if time permits, can read more than one book at a time, sometimes three. I don't… — Janalyn Robnett Copy Share Image
“As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Yes, she’s fine. She’s rereading one of your books. There’s not many authors she likes, so if there’s nothing new, she just… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc.… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
“I lay the book on the floor, open to the middle. It's a lovely volume, green leather covers, engraved endpapers. I remove… — Lou Beach Copy Share Image
“And when I can't speak it, I write it down. I wish I was different. Wish I was taller, smarter, could talk… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
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