“She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.' He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?' 'Every single… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
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What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read… — David Shields Copy Share Image
My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living… — John Updike Copy Share Image
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I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“Richard wrote a diary entry in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
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I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
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I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room,… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your… — James Salter Copy Share Image
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It's OK to screw up. For me, this was the big revelation when I was writing my first book, 'In the Woods':… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.” — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
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