Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“That one special book that takes you on a trip you never expected to go on...” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win. — Adam Young Copy Share Image
“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“It is the reader who comes to complete the work and to close, albeit temporarily, the world that it opens, and the… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book… — Matthew Reilly Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it:… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under… — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most… — James M. Gavin Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have anyone, but every time I walked through those doors I felt like each of those authors was my family… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us… — James Wood Copy Share Image
“The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious.… — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
“So the Trustees of Ohio State were right in 1956 when they canned the English instructor for assigning Catcher in the Rye… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
