In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Find tricks to keep yourself going,” William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. “Anything you can do to… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer. — Parvathy Copy Share Image
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of… — Leslie Banks Copy Share Image
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people. — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication. — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through… — David McCord Copy Share Image
“Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back… — Inez Kelley Copy Share Image
I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother,… — Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor Copy Share Image
I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
“One day after the exams, the teachers sat at their desks correcting papers while the pupils read comics, played chess or cards… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“Surrounded by the familiar covers of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, I felt like this was where all lost… — V.J. Campilan Copy Share Image
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.” — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see. — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“Any writer who waits for inspiration to strike will never finish a book. Inspiration is all very well but it will never… — Barbara Michaels Copy Share Image
“The sharing of a book is a statement—a message of affection that is also an act of self-revelation. Join my club, it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too.… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Why waste the space on a stack of half-read books and periodicals, when you could turn your nightstand into a tactical toolbox?” — Clint Emerson Copy Share Image
“Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am… — The Mummy Copy Share Image
“The cover of a book is akin to the door of a home; if it is welcoming and enticing, it beckons you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just… — James Bay Copy Share Image
