The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
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A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
My biggest ritual is writing at home more than on the road. I do very little writing on the road. Actually, it's… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
“Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe.… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“The significant difference between Proust and Faulkner, for Sartre, is that where Proust discovers salvation in time, in the recovery of time… — John McCormick Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Books had seen me through an earlier time of trouble, and their presence all around me was both a comfort and an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is like a library: you can borrow whichever experiences you deem pleasant, and easily return those that bring you pain.” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana Copy Share Image
I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes! — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected… — Rabindranath Maharaj Copy Share Image
I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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I enjoy writing and promoting my books. I enjoy the feedback. But all this is because I don't depend on it commercially.… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
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If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
3 Ways to write in EXAM: Look up for INSPIRATION Look down for CONCENTRATION & Look around for INFORMATION! — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
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