“Life is like a good book... some chapters engaging, some funny, some sad and some challenging...However, its all left to the design… — Nirmala Kasinathan Copy Share Image
I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“I can relate to the novelist Carrie Brown...who described herself as being 'a promiscuous reader.' I'll give almost any book a chance… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
“When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought… — Ellen Douglas Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to… — Jack Hodgins Copy Share Image
When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Valerie Martin was my mentor in college and she liked fiction that said something. That made it essential to have something to… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
“The room was large and airy. Shelves lined the walls on three sides, shelves that stretched way above his head, bending under… — Patricia Forde Copy Share Image
“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There was a muffled shriek from somewhere in the library, followed by a string of howled curses and the familiar pitter-patter of… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I’ve taken on some of the emotional weight of the stories I’ve worked on. I was writing about a very difficult time… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more… — Richard Thomas Copy Share Image
“He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
For so long, we had to write to pay a bill, we had to write in many instances where maybe you weren't… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to… — Petra Nemcova Copy Share Image
Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be… — Ruby Bentall Copy Share Image
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting. — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
“When I meet someone who says they're not "much for books," I can guarantee that they haven't met the right book yet.” — Kersten Hamilton Copy Share Image
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
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