“The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Having a nice library doesn’t make you smart. Don’t buy books and stack them up in your library; read them.” — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The thing is, with writing, it's form or content. You need to write about something interesting or you need to write about… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening.… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“...she talked in one of her memoirs of ignoring her little brother when she was supposed to be looking after him: "I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in some cases - should… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you can pay enough people to buy your .99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists,… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Writers, by their very nature, live a thousand lives and die a thousand times. They experience loss each time a character dies. … — Larry Ray Palmer Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but… — John Fund Copy Share Image
It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week,… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“She might ban me from the library." "The marvelous thing about libraries is that their contents can be easily moved.” — Alissa Johnson Copy Share Image
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text. — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
“I have this thing about books – a disease almost – that won’t let me give up until I’ve read to the… — Nicola Haken Copy Share Image
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.” — Thomas Scopel Copy Share Image
Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
My gut is so strong. I feel like I have a lot of books in me, and they're going to come out… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Writing is not getting any easier or harder. I think I know what I want more, I know what I'm looking for. — Jennifer Warnes Copy Share Image
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata. — David Grann Copy Share Image
When 'If God Was a Banker' became a success, it changed my entire perspective. I wanted to write more and wanted to… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights'… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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