A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“All I can say is . . . All I can say is we’ll figure it out, I swear. When I read… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I carry around a notebook that is equal parts day planner and journal. Every morning, I check to see what the agenda… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“It's commonplace to say that we 'love' a book, but when we say it, we mean all sorts of things. Sometimes we… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't… — Nancy Arroyo Ruffin Copy Share Image
“Then there are the books that shine in my memory, milestones along the horizontal course of my life. I remember not just… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Self publishing' is not as easy as it is portrayed! When you think you have finished your book, proof read, proof read… — Phil Simpkin Copy Share Image
You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a… — Robert McCloskey Copy Share Image
“Personally, Vin didn't find the library's location nearly as asuming as its contents. Or, rather, lack thereof. Though the romm was lined… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer,… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“She referred to the library, any library, as a sanctuary. She made a point of visiting them when we were on vacation,… — Abby Fabiaschi Copy Share Image
“but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to… — Elliot Mabeuse Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re- reading the last one. Sometimes you have to forget… — Keren Zhims Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“A struggling writer, 'I get hundreds of rejection letters each day. I am depressed with this life, Can you please help?' The… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Described as a "workaholic speed-writing freak" by fellow writers, a "creative writing class drill sergeant" by his writing 'padawans', Voinov is a… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
…..books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Everyone has secrets. Fiction allows people to see themselves in characters, to discover healing and truth when their ‘reputation’ or shame won’t… — Susan May Warren Copy Share Image
“We are surrounded by so many books, so many words, so many thoughts... and not a single one can help us. I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I think that everybody who writes believes that their work has some kind of use-value, for someone, that there's some need for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
