I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment;… — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“(As to how the Gatekeeper came to life) Once a bookworm, always a bookworm. But inspiration starts once that lowly worm crawls… — D.S. Quinio Copy Share Image
I attempt to read one book every day. I don't always achieve that, especially when I'm traveling. But when I'm home, I… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“The appropriation of history, the historicization of the past, the narrativization of society, all of which give the novel its force, include… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“(on teaching writing) So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living… — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One of my favorite pieces of advice about being a writer came from a very formative teacher I had as an undergraduate,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“For some, like me, writing comes at a price. My best creations were written while I was emotionally ripped open. I've spent… — Jennifer Salaiz Copy Share Image
“One evening at a remote provincial college through which I happened to be jogging on a protracted lecture tour, I suggested a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another… — Ronald Isley Copy Share Image
I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.” — Ken Andersen Copy Share Image
One constant writing ritual, no matter what I'm writing, is that I cannot write if people are around me. It wigs me… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
“The world is condensing, attention spans narrowing to tiny screens, and there are people who are wittier and smarter, who know how… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes). — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel. — Ira Berkow Copy Share Image
I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you… — Pat Morita Copy Share Image
I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“The writer who possesses the creative gift of fantasy owns something of which he is not always master; something that, at times,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
When I write about working-class people, I do so in ways that reveal them at their absolute, magnificent worst. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
A bookstore has thousands of titles to sell. You need to be the guy the store attendant recommends to the reader. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
