When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
It's hard to write an Evan Hunter novel because I really am starting from scratch. I'm assuming a new voice each time.… — Evan Hunter Copy Share Image
“Rejection is a challenge. Persistence is patience. Reward is a lifetime in the making. Despite what happens, only death will stop this… — Veronica Purcell Copy Share Image
“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in… — LouAnne Johnson Copy Share Image
“writers shouldn’t spend all their time doing what they don’t enjoy. Instead, they need to do what they love. They need to… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis… — Peter Prichard Copy Share Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you read a great book at one point in your life then in another part of your life, when you read… — Keith David Copy Share Image
I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Elaine: They're good people. They do good things, they READ. Jerry: I READ. Elaine: Books, Jerry. Jerry: Oh. Big deal.” — Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I often get asked how I write so much. As any writer knows, the answer is to write a lot more than… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
“Where do you think my new novel is? In the waste basket. I can see myself that it's no good on earth,… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its… — Martyn V. Halm Copy Share Image
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the… — Venita Ellick Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky was the sum of all these contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“Children's books are written to be read, adult books are written to be talked about at cocktail parties” — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Urging others to read F. Scott Fitzgerald, if not a reactionary act, was not something one could do in 1968.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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