Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“We read Books to Learn, Earn our Living above all to live wisely and Creative Never forget good books are Long term… — Dr.T.V.Rao MD Copy Share Image
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“If I’m asked what the next most important quality is for a novelist, that’s easy too: focus—the ability to concentrate all your… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I write well-fleshed out characters, and inevitably, more ideas spring from my subconscious. They all have a little bit of me in… — Faye Kellerman Copy Share Image
“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“No writing is effortless. I’m not saying you can’t have a good day where the words just kind of flow, but even… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“I suggest that you become a writer to reduce the cumbersomeness of talking to many people individually, but with books you can… — Nicholas Hawkins Copy Share Image
“She hadn't met Earth or Fire, the other two cousins, but she'd filled a couple of library requests for each of them… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“I loved my mom because she read the entire Harry Potter series out loud to me, and when we were finished, she… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.” — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You have to regain control of the authorship of your life and realize that no one else is going to write the… — Nate Green Copy Share Image
“Every time you read a book your mind touches that of the person who wrote it – even if they died a… — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
