“Find room in your heart, and space on your bookshelf, for new authors.” — Richard Abbott-Brailey Copy Share Image
My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality! — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. — John Waters Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
“Writers should measure their life not in years, but in moments of writing.” — J. Alchem Copy Share Image
“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
'In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day... If I don't… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know,… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Only seconds slip by without me scrambling for the aid of someone better, more knowledgeable, to walk beside. Writers are good for… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
One is told that you're either a hot writer, or you're finished and you're over. But of course, the more you hang… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“It's not good for me to run away from honest opinions. I can't let that block my writing. Otherwise, I'll never learn… — Hideyuki Kurata Copy Share Image
“Practicality requires that we stop somewhere in the process, but nothing actually says we can't keep on writing and revising. In fact,… — Ralph L. Wahlstrom Copy Share Image
