I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious… — David Farr Copy Share Image
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Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
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Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. — Otis Blackwell Copy Share Image
I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
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I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
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I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
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A friend is like a book that has to be read to appreciate its beauty. As such, you're one of the finest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
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