People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.” — Carol Morgan Copy Share Image
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family. — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do. — Anita Elberse Copy Share Image
I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Of all the advantages that ghostwriting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of… — Andrew Crofts Copy Share Image
Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“She sat there reading; cool, calm and collected. "You could ruin his life with that information," her friend reported triumphantly. The woman… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“So it goes as I work my way down the page, and each cluster of marks is a word, and each word… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“She had her head in a book. Like me she preferred reading about travel to actually traveling; it was so much more… — Zanesh Catkin Copy Share Image
I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger. — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“You can’t write novels about people who are timid, risk-averse and passive. Or you can, but they’re called literary novels.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
“When you read you must get out of your own skin and into the skin of the people you are reading about,… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
