“I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“There are no girl books. There are no boy books. There are just books.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person. — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books at the right… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.'… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's pretty rare that something I've written is close to something that's pre-existed. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“That was one nice thing about books and notes. They could always wait for another time.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.” — Hervé Le Tellier Copy Share Image
