“If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it... - It sounds horrible... so write don't read your… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“I debated whether to tell them I had long since abandoned my writing career and moved into radishes and fraud, but decided… — Susan Juby Copy Share Image
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“To read is not a virtue; but to read well is an art, and an art that only the born reader can… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“I hate lending, or borrowing—if you want me to read a book, tell me about it, or buy me a copy outright.… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they’ve gotten good at it, and they’re… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“Anyone can write one book; for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You have just confirmed to me that one of the most fortunate purposes of literature is to bring like-minded people together and… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
“beginning of this book that the instruction in reading that it provides applies to anything you have to or want to read.… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“I would like to apologize to the relatives of the fan who gave me 29 books to sign in Odyssey 7, Manchester.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since… — David Toop Copy Share Image
My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it,… — Gabriel Fielding Copy Share Image
“If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year… — Elizabeth Duivenvoorde Copy Share Image
He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“I know it's hard to write, darling. But it's harder not to. The only way you'll find out if you "have it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask, 'Does writing make you happy?' But I think that's beside the point. It makes you agitated, and continually in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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