It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“Most journals are repositories of great swatches of abstraction and generalization and self-analysis and interpretation and all that bad stuff. Don’t do… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans...… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the… — Eugene Manlove Rhodes Copy Share Image
I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth… — Milton Meltzer Copy Share Image
I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Writers that are pouring their soul out for the world to see, will cast a perfect reflection of themselves in their work.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a… — David Lubar Copy Share Image
A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down. — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Writing is my own personal therapy. It's cheaper than a real shrink and I get to kill people off when I grow… — Jack Tate Copy Share Image
I've always found that the best things I've ever written, or the things I like the most that I've written, are things… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Writing is the easiest thing in the world… Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
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