The pleasure for me is in the writing process, which has its own challenges. — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
“Never give more time to reading a book than to reflecting upon its contents.” — Frank Morton McMurry Copy Share Image
The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut. — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books:… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
They say your destiny is already written. But sometimes you just have to grab a pen and become your own author. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I believe whole-heartedly that anything you are passionate about, you can turn into a career benefit if you are a writer. — DaniAlla Copy Share Image
Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
If you write for children with respect and treat them with dignity - you'll capture the adults as well. Children deserve nothing… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I delete the last line, and then the entire paragraph. Lies. I am forgetting that this is not an ordinary novel, that… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
“Great literature remains great when it says new things to new generations, and the loops of a knot quite nicely parallel the… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
