If I'm writing a radio thing that's narrative, it's quite nice to stop for an hour and write a load of garbage… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
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One I'm deeply into is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." I was the only person in the US who hadn't read… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
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The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't… — Hans-Uwe Bauer Copy Share Image
“Using the comma well announces that you have an ear for sense and rhythm, confidence in your style and a proper respect… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“The store owner had settled himself behind the counter again and was reaching for his book. "The journey will test your sanity."… — Natasha Mostert Copy Share Image
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Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my… — Richard E. Robbins Copy Share Image
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you. — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
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I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep… — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
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You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to… — Carolyn Haywood Copy Share Image
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