When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“For years I have been coming to this library, and I explore it volume by volume, shelf by shelf, but I could… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I probably write the same story a hundred different ways. I suppose right now I am looking for the 101st different way… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I know I’m not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I took "Forever" [by Judy Blume] to the bathroom to read [when I was eight] and then I heard my mom coming… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think every American kid grows up dreaming about being in the movies. That's completely normal for us. But I mostly wanted… — David Labrava Copy Share Image
Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
“You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me.” — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“Yes, I read. And yes, I do it a lot. And yes, I did it before you because life can suck and… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy. — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I let my thoughts bare little feet ramble on the narrow cobblestone alleys, hoping they find their way out of the petite… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“At any rate, where books are concerned, it is notoriously difficult to fix labels of merit in such a way that they… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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