The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message -… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever… — Ann Tyler Copy Share Image
“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In a way, metafiction breaks down the story and makes it less real. But in another respect, by that very breaking down,… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I think if you write from your own gut, you'll come up with something interesting, whereas if you sit around guessing what… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“All writing is a sin against speechlessness,’ Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.” — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“ How Journal Writing Helps Because of your social anxiety, you may be so afraid that any opinions you have are wrong… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to know, when you’re in such a jam, which is worse—not having a place to sleep or not having a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“there is an osmosis from fiction to reality, a constant contamination which distorts the truth behind both and fuzzes the telling distinctions… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
“My literature must remain that which it is. Especially that something which does not fit into politics and does not want to… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Every writer follows a theme, and mine is survival. If you can't figure out what a writer's theme is, look at the… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“A piece of writing is never good,” he told me. “There is simply a moment when it is less bad than before.” — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been… — Spencer Gordon Copy Share Image
There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it. — Lawrence Watt-Evans Copy Share Image
I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I have a hard time writing happy things. I really just don't find it that interesting for me personally to write about… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
“Those people digging around in the refrigerator at 3am, those are the only people I can write for. And that, is me.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They went on to support their thesis by citing authors with esoteric names, whose works they themselves had not read, a fact… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need… — Glenda Millard Copy Share Image
“Never write anything that does not move you or give you pleasure. Emotion is then transferred from the writer to the reader.” — Massimo Marino Copy Share Image
My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated,… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
For me, the worst writing generally just 'flips' things: this person's really a traitor; it was all a dream; etc. Nothing is… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
