A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
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When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A girl named Rachel transformed my childhood. Life was safe, suburban and comfortable, but ours was a home without books. I met… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
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“The typewriter is neat and compact and sturdy and blue, just the right machine to pound out a missive of love. When… — Yvette Walker Copy Share Image
If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
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You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
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One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
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I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where… — James Frey Copy Share Image
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I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never heed.… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Search your own life for the story only you can tell. The best thing about writing from life is that you can… — Elizabeth Forsythe Copy Share Image
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
And if you're gonna be a writer, you just truly have to be a writer. You have to throw yourself into it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only… — Benjamin Disraeli 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
Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
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“…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read… — Stevan V. Nikolic Copy Share Image
I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction:… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
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