I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises…… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Julia had once been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too… I… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front… — Kate Baldwin Copy Share Image
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
“Life gives us struggles first and reward later. And as a writer my life's purpose is to write and tell stories. Some… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Cultures are like books, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once remarked, each a volume in the great library of humankind. In the sixteenth… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
You're always hoping you can attract a bigger audience, but at the same time, I'd hate to give up what I write.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
“For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd Work… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a… — James Bay Copy Share Image
I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
“In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
To me, the act of writing itself is infinitely more important than any success I have achieved through it. Not that I'm… — Jacqueline Briskin Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
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