Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to… — Jennifer Loren Copy Share Image
“I do not, can not write just for money. Lord knows I haven't made much. I write because it is what my… — Stanley Christopher Copy Share Image
“She’d never spent entire days lying on her bed reading, entire nights making up complicated stories in her head. She’d not dreamed… — Joanna Rakoff Copy Share Image
I think of my success as a kind of fluke. How else could I possibly think of it? And although it's a… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I actually had publishers that would encourage me at times to keep it simpler, not pack in so much information, but I'm… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
“Closing the book, Winnie scowled and said, “Why do you have to be so… so…” she trailed off, unable to think of… — Tim O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A good book slowly grabs you by the soul without your knowledge. By the time you’re in tears and laughing at the… — Tom Williams Copy Share Image
“you see book is like a machine if it don't have gas it can't start just like our brain without book we… — Kelly Elysee Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of writing; the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I was elated when I found out my first novel, 'Leaving Patrick,' about a woman who walks out on her husband, was… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Every single path is so different, but I would definitely say that the idea of what a writer is or should be… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I write when the baby is asleep or when I'm on the road I write a lot... There's always time to do… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
“If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it. — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
