Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults. — Thea Astley Copy Share Image
Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books build a stairway to your imagination, that one day may become a Reality, with knowledge obtained through books. — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Your interviews or blog posts or whatever are less supplements to your novel than part of it. I'm not private, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long… — Bryan Forbes Copy Share Image
It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
“For a week or a fortnight I can write prodigiously in a retired place (as at Broadstairs), and a day in London… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes.… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.” — Lisa C. Taylor Copy Share Image
Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to… — Lydia Rodriguez-Clement Copy Share Image
“If you have a desire to write, that means there's stuff in you that wants out. And if you don't write things… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied… — Phillip Thomas Copy Share Image
Once an ebook hits the Kindle Top 100, sales tend to snowball as new customers discover it in greater numbers. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more. — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives. — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
“The only circumstances in which I would write a roman a clef would be if I'd lost my fucking car keys.” — Will Self Copy Share Image
I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
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... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it,… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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