Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be… — Ed Stoppard Copy Share Image
Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to… — John Green Copy Share Image
A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“It makes sense. It's all there. Everything that's beautiful or wise or significant has been written down at some time or other.… — Adam Kennedy Copy Share Image
“As writers we are always seeking support. First we should notice that we are already supported every moment. There is the earth… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“For me, this is what wild reading is: readers who incorporate reading into their personal identities to the degree that it weaves… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I have so much going on inside my head in terms of writing, there's such a large space in my life taken… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing. — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“I've been living in fear. I've been living only in books. Which is fine, but … I don't want to just read… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Life is but an open Book, with many pages to fulfill. It is soely upon oneself to which the pages shall read.… — Mike D Copy Share Image
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a 1,000 words a day. For me - just give me one thought, and the words… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. — Franklin Pierce Adams Copy Share Image
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work. — Daniel J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
