I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
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Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
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In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
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I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time. — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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