Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Grading doesn’t make my students better writers. Lots of practice coupled with meaningful feedback makes my students better writers.” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.” — David Chuka Copy Share Image
Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The purpose of my writing, whatever I write, is not what may be right or wrong; But for when I leave this… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
“As it says on the Tshirts:'I don't scare easily - I'm a librarian.', which was the polite version of the original:'Don't give… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The door opened to reveal a room with walls consisting mostly of inset mahogany bookcases covered by leaded glass doors. Intricate plasterwork… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society,… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.” — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently,… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
In 'Dark Skye,' I rewrote every one of the Pandemonia scenes over and over before I was happy with them - hundreds… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
I write about different things. Anything that has affected me. Anything that I have liked. Anything that I feel strongly about. Any… — Tabu Copy Share Image
“It's great being a part time writer. If you sell books you're a success. But if you don't sell any then all… — Aaron T Knight Copy Share Image
I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when… — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Comme l'on serait savant si l'on connaissait bien seulement cinq à six livres. ( How wise one might be if one knew… — Flaubert Copy Share Image
“A community that doesn't think it needs a library isn't a community for whom a library is irrelevant. It's a community that's… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
There are, I'm depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book.… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“writing consists of having a cool idea, making the trailer and promo art in your head and never write it” — me, a professional Copy Share Image
I went to the career adviser when I was 16, and tried to explain that I wanted to be a comedian or… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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