Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'm Aries and I have heard a lot about it, but I don't know if it's the truth. But it's always entertaining… — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that's important in the process of… — Mitski Copy Share Image
I think it's more helpful to keep your books sort of a singular focus. Get it said, get it said well, fascinate… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again. — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
Writing isn't about performing. Writing is like looking for treasure, so it's sort of like you're out in the field. I wouldn't… — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who re-read and those who don’t. No, don’t be silly, there are… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice… — Laurence Yep Copy Share Image
Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to. — Joe Jonas Copy Share Image
I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I… — Zara Cox Copy Share Image
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
“Close your eyes, pick a random book from the shelf and read it! Is this a correct method? No, wrong method! Make… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way,… — Anthony Hamilton Copy Share Image
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
Good writings are never born from people chilling around. Good writings are born from within the piles and folds of pain and… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for… — Rachel Scott Copy Share Image
Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D.… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Always be reading. Go to the library. There's magic in being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read bibiliographies. It's… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a horrible exhausting struggle; one would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say... — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
