Books by women, people of color, LGBTQ authors, differently abled people, and non-Americans are a great way of broadening horizons and building… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.” — Zoë Marriott Copy Share Image
“Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library:… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to write raps for people in three-piece suits sitting behind big oak desks. I'm writing for people who can't… — Bushwick Bill Copy Share Image
“I like to hear the marching of typewriter keys, the shudder of the space bar, the metallic ding at the end of… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Perhaps if there is anything remotely interesting about my writing style, it is this: more often than not I have no idea… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Here is my room, in the yellow lamplight and the space heater rumbling: Indian rug red as Cochise's blood, a desk with… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
“A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I love my style of writing. Nope, it's not the most poetic stuff you've ever read but you know, it can evoke… — Erin M. Truesdale Copy Share Image
One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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Sometimes the title comes to you at the beginning, sometimes it comes at the end. The very best way in my experience… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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“We have had a number of books casting the acid of angry rejection over the spirit of our age. They are not… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as… — Stephen Abrams Copy Share Image
It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
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