I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans. — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“One of the great gifts of fiction is that it asks us to stretch our empathy.” — Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Copy Share Image
National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Where I live, it's better to write in the morning because the night is really, really, really dark, and I do believe… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I've gotten into doing electronic books and audiobooks, so I have an iPad. I still love reading a real book, but when… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump… — Bruce Joel Rubin Copy Share Image
Every aspect of the novel is - or should be - an arrow pointed towards its ultimate meaning, or a multiplicity of… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the… — Carl Deuker Copy Share Image
“I write from Spirit. When it’s time for me to write, I have to lose myself in that world - meet my… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
