“And what he didn't understand is that she was a library full of adventures in every corner and compartment.” — Rand Copy Share Image
I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of books worth keeping: Valuable books and valuable books. The first value is monetary, and the second… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
“If you’re not going to immerse yourself in your work as a writer then don’t write. But beware, if you’re a writer… — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and… — Nathan Bransford literary agent Copy Share Image
“In the middle of a novel, a kind of magical thinking takes over. To clarify, the middle of the novel may not… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that if a child has a feel for writing and wants to write, there is an audience. Children should just… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Ebooks represent a shift from a culture of scarcity to a culture of abundance. In the past, publishing required a great deal… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I don't want to read a book on a device. I like a book with a hard cover and text on a… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Give a book 50 pages. When you get to the bottom of Page 50, ask yourself if you're really liking the book…… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
'Cue for Treason,' by Geoffrey Trease, radicalized my young girl brain and made me want to be a gender-bending, sonnet-writing anarchist. It… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Do you eat decayed food? No. Well, don't feed your mind with decayed books. Be as careful with the nutrition of your… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
“Just a thought. What sets us above all other life on this planet is our ability to read. What we read can… — M.J. Croan Copy Share Image
... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“I get sad every time I hear a person say "I don't read." It's like saying "I don't learn," or "I don't… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“John is almost famous for not being famous," Williams compadre Dan Wakefield complained in 1986. "This is Hemingway without bluster, Fitzgerald without… — DanWakefield Copy Share Image
I think that I'm going to write a bigger thing, and then I end up writing about people, and the bigger thing… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
“The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count. — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent… — Charlotte Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
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