“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Sylvia Day is the undisputed mistress of tender, erotic romance. Her books are a luxury every woman deserves.” — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer,… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.” — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“...I’ve never understood the logic that says a work doesn’t need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I couldn't read SAY MY NAME immediately. There was no Larry for me but it was far too close to the bones… — Rosalinda Copy Share Image
When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say to you in my diary, and it… — Claressa Shields Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, highly rational writers (like Nabokov) write most comfortably in the morning, and mainly intuitive writers write most comfortably… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss -ssso much compressed… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through. — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right - whatever… — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
“If you want to write books to get famous, the books will suck.Write books to tell the story you want to tell… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“Yes, after every book is finished I decide it is the last one, and then I get an idea in my head… — Patricia Robins Copy Share Image
How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to… — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It… — Jack Lasenby Copy Share Image
I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“When is talking about literature not an evasion of the real question at hand? Although a nice-enough evasion.” — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words. — Charlie Bewley Copy Share Image
Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes,… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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