“[ Fahrenheit 451 ] is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Honestly, if anyone reads my work, they're doing me a favor, so they get to use whatever words they want to describe… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul. — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
I don't like when people relying on me in any kind of business way. I'm just a writer. I'm just noodling around… — Matt Kindt Copy Share Image
You could say that this book is ripped from the headlines, but that wouldn't be fair. Bret Anthony Johnston's riveting novel picks… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can… — Natalie Stein Copy Share Image
The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You're never gonna outwrite the movement of the white clouds and the blue sky. You're never going to. There are times when… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who… — Michael Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“...fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“But with each passing year, and each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether… — nick hornby Copy Share Image
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and… — Guy Browning Copy Share Image
I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I was 17 when I wrote a collection of short stories and wanted it published but it didn't happen. A lot of… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can.… — Felipe Esparza Copy Share Image
It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
“All writing, all composition, is construction. we do not imitate the world, we construct versions of it. there is no mimesis, only… — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
“To me it was the ultimate book: once you read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would… — Dai Sijie Copy Share Image
Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what… — Lesley M. M. Blume Copy Share Image
I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out… — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“If the good news from cyberspace is that we're writing more, the bad news is that most of us aren't very good… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I want to stay close to the groove of people's individual human stories. I can't see that there's anything more interesting than… — Lucinda Coxon Copy Share Image
When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
“Starting your book is only the first five miles of a twenty-six-mile marathon that’s one-third of a triathlon (authoring, publishing, and entrepreneuring).” — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
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