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The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper. — Mike Greenberg Copy Share Image
I just feel the need as a writer to try something kind of deep and fulfilling. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!" — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
“Since I picked up my first book, I have been reading about amazing discoveries, intrepid explorers, and fantastic creatures, all while scarcely… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
When you're writing about someone feeling so isolated and so lonely, when the making of it becomes collaborative, that's a special thing. — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Life can't be divided into chapters...only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“One purpose of these notebooks was to record interesting scenes, especially those involving people and emotions. “As you go about town,” he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
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