I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four… — Gail Tsukiyama Copy Share Image
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“I had often seen my master and Dick employed in reading; and I had a great curiosity to talk to the books,… — Olaudah Equianom Copy Share Image
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“Oh literature is a wonderful thing, Varenka, a very wonderful thing: I discovered that from being with those people the day before… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
We write to understand our deepest secrets to ourselves, to understand. We write in an outpouring of love. We write in secret,… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“We also wish to make it absolutely clear that Librarians should not attempt to use the Library to transport dinosaur eggs. And… — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity. — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable. — Geoffrey Wolff Copy Share Image
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood — David Seltzer Copy Share Image
“Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to… — Laraine Herring Copy Share Image
“That night I sat up writing in my diary writing to Big Me: 'I hope you are alive ' I wrote. 'I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. — T. Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. I have no ghost writers. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I've tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral-bound… — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
“I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Every real reader must read Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: the whole of his/her life of reading will change its meaning.” — Paolo Milani Copy Share Image
I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Write your feeling like resentment and problems to the piece of paper, to remove the heavy feeling in your heart. — Mitch Alapan Copy Share Image
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
“how can I write about this when I am afraid of not having time to finish and of stirring up all these… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were… — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways.… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Trying to achieve an error-free manuscript is almost like trying to fly to the moon on a paper airplane.” — Jon Michael Riley Copy Share Image
