My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories. — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time. — George Eads Copy Share Image
I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“He paused, then added, "Some of them are working very hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing. — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after… — Sid Fleischman Copy Share Image
I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became… — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is brilliant because you can totally exaggerate everything and not have to worry about legal issues. — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Some people call reading an escape, but it's not - it's embracing the true reality of the best parts of who we… — Sean Gibson Copy Share Image
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
In rich and captivating prose, Jessica DuLong kindly invites the rest of us on the journey of her lifetime: from a dot-com… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
They talk about a lot of different things, but I think they definitely have the same school of thought as my husband… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
As someone who writes novels that are often set in other periods of time or other ages or other landscapes, there's a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is a bit like making a sword. First, you take all the raw material and melt it down in… — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
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