“Where was life? It dissipated, vanished into thin air, and my life stood weighed and found wanting because it had no ready-made… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, and effectual comforter. By study,… — Barrow Copy Share Image
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That is the person you want publishing your book. To be in it, you really have to believe in books and love… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
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a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists,… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
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One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
“Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat, with a book taken from the library, copied… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
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Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
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I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
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“The singular power of literature lies not in its capacity for accurate representation of mass commonalities, but its ability to illuminate the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. One, I rarely have anything to say.… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
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I was given a pen not to write anything but just to make me feel how it is to hold something full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rewriting is always crucial to what I do; whenever I do a scene, I always tell myself that this isn't final… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I've had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
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“literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
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