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In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
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What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work,… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Randy does a sorting procedure on the diving books now: he ignores anything that has color photographs, or that appears to have… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“when TV like the radio before it has been swallowed alive by the next big thing. My stories will still be here,… — Shawn Hilton Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice… — Stanley Ellin Copy Share Image
Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
“Always the same seesaw. The fear that my scribbling could get me put into a concentration camp. The feeling that it is… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting,… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images,… — David Means Copy Share Image
The Library of Relationships: Finding someone is like finding a book. You shouldn't walk in the Library and pick up the first… — TroyCj Copy Share Image
“You can't murder a book. Even I know that. But you know what you can do with a book, what you can… — Lady Jaida Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It takes a long time to open someone like a book, you need to press your spines together. Then the patterns of… — Kelsey Ipsen Copy Share Image
I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial.… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
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