“Is that so? Trauma in Hampstead? Let me guess, catastrophic hernias from making a mistake picking up a sack of money, reaching… — Alen Mattich Copy Share Image
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy! — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When you write for kids, people always ask you what lesson you mean to impart. I don't think adult writers get that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“... Bookstore, which smelled the way only a new book from England does when you open it for the first time, faintly… — Frederick Beuchner Copy Share Image
There's also a lot of stuff that's not really good that gets written so I say to people who are excited about… — Josh Prince Copy Share Image
I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“Excuse me? she sent. What’s this all about? She looked around suspiciously, but the library was full of Auradon students diligently working… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Power, for the writer…lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“How to start new novel: stare at blank doc, get coffee, stare, check facebook, stare, crack knuckles, stare, tweet, you get the… — Mary C. Moore Copy Share Image
“Some leaned back in their hammocks overlooking Eden, while reading Harry Potter book twenty-three – you don’t have those on Earth, I… — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know… — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of how it will make up into a… — H G Wells Copy Share Image
“My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly… — Jeffrey DeMunn Copy Share Image
The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free. — Siva Vaidhyanathan Copy Share Image
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“Literature is the queen of the arts —the greatest of them all, because it embraces them all. When you write, you are… — César Aira Copy Share Image
“When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.” — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
“All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere… — Mel Odom Copy Share Image
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