I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I get up to write while it's still dark, 5 or 5:30. I start by editing and rewriting everything I did the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were doing something to the book, whereas in fact the book… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
I think Lena Dunham is a very bright and very interesting writer, and what she's accomplished at such a young age absolutely… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how… — Arthur M. Jolly Copy Share Image
When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move… — Stephen Reid Copy Share Image
We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The Seven Warning Signs I Might Have a Bad Idea: ► Fear of telling anyone about it ► Fear it might be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing.… — Rosemary Daniell Copy Share Image
“Have you been writing any personal experience articles lately?" the woman asked the writer. "No," replied the writer. "I've been busy having… — Ruth Peterman Copy Share Image
“Facebook has emotions, YouTube has likes and dislikes but to like 50 times over you’ve got to find a happy Medium.” — Chandra dos Santos Copy Share Image
I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There are more than 21 eBook channels already. Authors can’t possibly get to these and do what they do best. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world.” — M.J. Stoddard Copy Share Image
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Don't just read books that are best-sellers or books that you agree with, challenge your own thinking as you're reading.” — Rowena Crosbie Copy Share Image
The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?” — David Morrell Copy Share Image
The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended. — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
When you're writing about someone feeling so isolated and so lonely, when the making of it becomes collaborative, that's a special thing. — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
“…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
