Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in… — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
“He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages,… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I wonder if I'll meet one person that knows enough people that can get me recognized as a writer. Oh I already… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
“If you had to give one piece of advice to people in their twenties, what would it be? To go to a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Lucky Luke: I wonder how you manage to read with everything that's going on. Jolly Jumper: By turning the pages just like… — Morris Copy Share Image
There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
“A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map.” - Kirkus Reviews” — Milena Banks Copy Share Image
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Losing myself for hours in worlds that only existed in the confines of a paper jacket was my only escape from a… — Winter Renshaw Copy Share Image
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