There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it,… — Peter James Copy Share Image
“the chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Bedtime stories Eventide Rhapsodies Anthologies of Memory Please enter cautiously and feel free to open what is closed” — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things… — Ian Watt Copy Share Image
My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
“In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was… — Maynah Lewis Copy Share Image
Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to go to a different place now. As a person... I want to step off whatever this… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
“So you got Phoenix back,” declared Karla, clapping her hands in delight. “That’s lovely.” “I’m more on loan,” I muttered. “Yeah, my… — Joss Stirling Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I… — William James Copy Share Image
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
What helps change bad writing into mediocre writing is editing. Editing is in bad shape in print journalism, and is in virtually… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its… — Kim Boykin Copy Share Image
“Rosemary, why do you love books so much?" (...) "Well, actually, I love books because books are my best friends.” — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen. — Rosemary Wells Copy Share Image
The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“It’s important to understand that a writer’s love for creation is only surpassed by their love of having the ability to dramatically… — Danielle Rose Copy Share Image
I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Books are alive and, just like people, sometimes are welcome and sometimes shown the door and asked to come back later.” — Christopher Herz Copy Share Image
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom… — John Irving Copy Share Image
People don't like it when you compare the miracle of childbirth to writing a book, but I think there is some overlap… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
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