Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of… — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the… — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“5 1/2 centuries after its 1.0 release, the book is a surprisingly robust piece of information technology. Sure, its memory is relatively… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I suppose the book I really remember loving as a child was one called 'The Outsiders' by S.E. Hinton, about a gang… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Just get all of your ideas down. To me, writing is therapy and a way to clear your mind and step into… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
“A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become… — Suzy Davies Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the… — Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart Copy Share Image
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A lot of times if I'm writing, if something is awesome, something in me wants to go like, it's awesome. Let's stop.… — Edi Patterson Copy Share Image
I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink,… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted… — Harry Golombek Copy Share Image
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize.… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.” — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different. — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey.” — Stephanie Lovett Stoffel Copy Share Image
“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
