My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The page-a-day folks had done well and generally gotten tenure. The so-called “binge writers” fared far less well, and many had had… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
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“6 criteria to upgrade literary production; Correct language, the power of the idea, the fluency in expressing, the connection between ideas and… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
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In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write… — MNEK Copy Share Image
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I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning… — Beverly Jenkins Copy Share Image
There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at… — David Grann Copy Share Image
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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