The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“She’s definitely a romance writer. I’ve primed her to be a romance writer, subjecting her to so many romantic dramas it would… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Each of us will make his own shelf of books. The book for me is the book that delights, attracts, soothes, or… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
“Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“With the increased recognition that an important part of brain development occurs within the first three years of a child’s life, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I read a lot, but at the same time I'm not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Don't you see, said Father, that you are confusing fiction with facts, fiction does not create facts, fiction can come from facts,… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“I’ve always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.” — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I don't make noise, I make moves when my moves works it makes da noise for me and while you're busy saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told. — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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