A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust. — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image
“I didn't always write for a living, and even back when it was my most fondly held dream to one day be… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“Beyond imagination and insight, the most important component of talent is perseverance—the will to write and rewrite in pursuit of perfection. Therefore,… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
If you want to be traditionally published, then you most likely want to get a literary agent. To sign with an agent,… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel.… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers. — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
If the writing is good, I'm there. If it's something I've never done before, I'm up for that, too. — W. Earl Brown Copy Share Image
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“The easiest part of the writing process is whichever part I’m not currently doing.” — Scott Tracey Copy Share Image
“Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page or just closing the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.” — St Augustine Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed. — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
