I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing,… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience. — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. — John Green Copy Share Image
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I knew right from the beginning that if I was going to write a book, I would write my version of the… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
At 31, I decided to learn how to read and, at 32, read my first book: Lee Iacocca's autobiography. Ten years later,… — Diamond Dallas Page Copy Share Image
So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
(I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do.… — El-P Copy Share Image
“I recently enjoyed Always Happy Hour by Mary Miller and Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh—both dark, strange, a bit uncomfortable,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Mistake is a single page in a part of Life … but Relation is a book of dictionary ----- So don't lose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will… — Jesse Shera Copy Share Image
[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things… — Olaotan Fawehinmi Copy Share Image
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