A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I made up a story about you and I. I lived it like it was true. I loved it like a boo. — Ama M Copy Share Image
“All great stories began as shitty first drafts. There are no exceptions to this.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction. — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Most writers, including myself, had to endure a lot of rejections before finally getting published. You could wallpaper a sizeable bathroom with… — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly… — Jonathan Stalling Copy Share Image
I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“The objectivity we sought was the power to recollect — if not in tranquillity, at least in 'dispassion' and this power is… — Richard Crossman Copy Share Image
The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“People put too much focus on books. Listen to stories. The stories of your peers, mentors, parents, etc. The life you're living… — Dom McLennon Copy Share Image
As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We're always observing, and we're cautious people. We really want attention, but at the same time, we're ashamed of wanting attention. All… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“I don’t just want to write a story. I want to pull the reader into my ink so they feel the cold… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
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