I like to write about lots of things in real life that people can relate to, that people can I guess connect… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
“and although the young writer never met his literary mentor, the spiritual connection between the two writers would never be dissolved.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her 78th book. 'All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
My parents read me some typical children's books: 'Green Eggs and Ham,' 'The Little Engine That Could,' 'Peter Rabbit.' But I quickly… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd be it.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave… — Judy Delton Copy Share Image
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I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
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“You said that you wanted to be her reason for loving books. You said you wanted to be her reason for everything.” — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
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All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
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