Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable,… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroic creations - 'Druss the axeman,' 'the… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that… — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection but in the plight… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“Poppy used to share the room with her older sister, and piles of he sister's outgrown clothes still remained spread out in… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter, a letter he sent only after I’d… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence.… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need… — Nathaniel Rich Copy Share Image
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth — Ranulph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“fiction started up, and we started burning brain cells on stories about things that didn’t happen to people who didn’t exist. Why?… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing.… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback. — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
