“Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books are road map to your destination called success. Refer to good ones.” — Vikrmn Copy Share Image
Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written. — Andrea Brown Copy Share Image
...When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“So what's this about a book club? You girls sit around, reading dirty books, fanning each other's vaginas? Because if so, count… — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
I believe whole-heartedly that anything you are passionate about, you can turn into a career benefit if you are a writer. — DaniAlla Copy Share Image
They say your destiny is already written. But sometimes you just have to grab a pen and become your own author. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You think there's something materialistic about collecting books, but really collectors are the last romantics. We're the only ones who still love… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“The difference between a person who appreciates books, even loves them, and a collector is not only degrees of affection, I realized.… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
