Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
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The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
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So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“You should read this book’ almost never simply means you should read this book. It is usually far more fraught. Telling someone… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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“Without being aware that I was following in my father’s footsteps, I read, before I went to Cambridge, Mill’s Logic and Political… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and… — Uma Nnenna Copy Share Image
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but… — Naomi Benaron Copy Share Image
Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable. — Geoffrey Wolff Copy Share Image
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity. — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I've tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral-bound… — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
“I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Every real reader must read Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: the whole of his/her life of reading will change its meaning.” — Paolo Milani Copy Share Image
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. I have no ghost writers. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. — T. Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
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