Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell Copy Share Image
I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer. — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience. — Jennifer Pharr Davis Copy Share Image
Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
If you're going to read a Peretti book, you're going to get a message. But the book is a pretty good read. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
“If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
You learn the values that are inherent in the scene that the writer has written. You learn about who you as a… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“Interview on The Skiffy and Fanty Show 2010. In response to query that young adults may not be open to the nuances/realism… — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you –… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“More books." His eyes went wide. "You have, like, then books you just said you haven't read." "Doesn't mean I won't get… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
“This is a place where books are treasured – books that hold the sweetly magical smell of history; books that crackle when… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.” — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!” — Kelley Lovelace Copy Share Image
Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
