I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Marshall McLuhan predicted books would become art objects at some point. He was right.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.” — Lara Biuts Copy Share Image
I wrote my first history book when I was four. I still have it so I can prove it. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph. — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, librarians are a kick in the pants socially, often full of good humor, progressive, and, naturally, well read” — Bill Hall Copy Share Image
I don't have to mumble something under my breath when someone asks me what I do anymore. I can just say, definitively,… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul. — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial.… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
“It takes a long time to open someone like a book, you need to press your spines together. Then the patterns of… — Kelsey Ipsen Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our… — Hal Zina Bennett Copy Share Image
