“Digital books are in some ways hastening the lazy, solipsistic narcissism of our culture. We use our gadgets as proxies for other… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not… — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“I venture to suggest this solution to the ancient problem: The Library is unlimited and cyclical. If an eternal traveler were to… — José Borges Copy Share Image
How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me,… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who… — Miguel Serrano Copy Share Image
You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you… — Joel Schumacher Copy Share Image
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started… — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
In my day the library was a wonderful place… We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary…… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular. — James Avery Copy Share Image
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
For me, I just know I feel better when I stay consistent with my writing. Ten minutes a day, even. Sometimes it's… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one… — Lori Perkins Copy Share Image
“Like an airplane, an oven, or an elevator, Faebook is a tool that can make life's To-Dos fun and easy.” — Carolyn Abram Copy Share Image
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Good fiction can help us to expand our circle of empathy to include people unlike ourselves.- R' Eitan Levy” — Eitan Levy Copy Share Image
I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time. — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
