The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are… — John Irving Copy Share Image
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Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
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There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
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I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Ephraim, it's an incredibly intimate thing to share one of your favorite books with someone else. I think so, anyway." "How do… — E.C. Myers Copy Share Image
Growing up, my two favorite books were Woody Allen's 'Side Effects' and Phyllis Diller's 'Housekeeping Hints.' I carried that Phyllis Diller book… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of 'Gavin and Stacey,' but I think I have to write something else even to start to consider myself… — James Corden Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
[as for evolution]…cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I would finish my evening online class at 9:30 pm and then after making and eating a quick dinner would then keep… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
“One more comment from the heart: I’m old fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“In another Nabokov novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight , Sebastian's brother discovers two seemingly incongruous pictures in his dead brother's… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
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“Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I… — Roberto Bolaño translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Copy Share Image
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The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand.… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
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I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream,… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
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After the editing room, I go and take a nap. I'm not in the practice of writing, and I feel like I'm… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
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