The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors. — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
“Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.” — Toby Forward Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad. — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them. — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape. — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves...full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“don’t expect a magic formula that’ll make books fall out of your head and automatically give you a wide readership.” — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if… — Howard Norman Copy Share Image
“The truth, however, was that there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that… — Tana French Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about being a writer is this. I wake up every day and I write for… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I've had that situation where I start writing somebody really miserable, and in order to make the story come alive, I have… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
