“I am afraid of writing, too, because when I write I am always moving toward the unarticulated, the dangerous, the place where… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...and always the cutting out and the buggering about and the buggering about and the rewriting and so on...” — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
When I write something down it doesn't look funny to me. It's about the environment, it's all in the moment. — John Bishop Copy Share Image
“Reading takes you on a wonderful journey to places you have probably never been. Sit back and enjoy your journey.” — Marjorie Taylor Copy Share Image
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“You may have wanted to read it when you bought it, but if you haven’t read it by now, the book’s purpose… — Marie Kondō Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
“It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be… But that's the fun of writing a novel… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book;… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
“He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a… — Stephen Leigh Copy Share Image
There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
“Oh kindly books! Like true and trusted friends: What blessed cheer your presence with us lends. Whene'er we spend a pleasant hour… — Maurine Hathaway Copy Share Image
I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe. — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if… — Hubert Selby Jr Copy Share Image
What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with… — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“. . . this girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
As a writer, you understand how hard it is to build up backstory for characters, so you can have impactful moments. You… — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
