It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys'… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the… — Charles R. Jackson Copy Share Image
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the… — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“If you are a “now-person”, you reduce the time rate during which your success story is to be published; if you delay… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not… — Gloria Anzaldua Copy Share Image
“Ill love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“She loved the smell of books. She loved everything about books. It was her escape. She traveled all over the world with… — Soroosh Shahrivar Copy Share Image
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
“In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.” — John Middleton Murry Copy Share Image
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.” — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
I absolutely love Dorothy Dunnett's 'House of Niccolo' series and the 'Lymond Chronicles.' They are so detailed. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.” — Michael Gorman Copy Share Image
“First, you have to think and think and think and think; then you have to force yourself to write it down.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Holless Wilbur Allen Copy Share Image
I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
My husband really treats my writing like it's a job - and he reminds me of that when I have those low… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn't… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
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