“I am addicted to reading, I will never reach the end of my TBR list because it multiplies all by itself. It… — Lani Copy Share Image
You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
“You don’t look like the librarians I remember,” he told her. “We’ve changed. There was a whole press release issued about it,… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
He asked Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know I suppose I love them… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink… — Platt Rogers Spencer Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package,… — Ellen Raskin Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Are you wondering what to write? Let’s start with some general statements that are useful each and every day. Then we’ll create… — Peggy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
“I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.” — Bobbi Romans Copy Share Image
Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.” — David Aylward Copy Share Image
“Agenda-driven novelists don’t often want to bother learning the craft of fiction. They’re just dipping into fiction long enough to disguise their… — Jeff Gerke Copy Share Image
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“We have fiction mimicking truth, and truth mimicking fiction. We have a dangerous overlap, a dangerous blur. And in all probability it… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in… — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
“My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is]… — Psalms 45 1 Copy Share Image
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young? — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility. — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
“Books are keys to wisdom's treasure; Books are gates to lands of pleasure; Books are paths that upward lead; Books are friends.… — Emilie Poulsson Copy Share Image
Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
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