“I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.” — Harold Rabinowitz Copy Share Image
“Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
Every writer needs new material now and then, whether it's traveling to Japan, volunteering at a food bank, learning a new language,… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws. — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support. — Felice Picano Copy Share Image
I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“Indy Rivers got things done. Maybe she was a fictional character, but they were in a fictional place, in a fictional situation.… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing… — Henry Sydnor Harrison Copy Share Image
Of course at that point I had no idea that the adventure was only beginning and that the struggle and the rejections… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Poor writing is lazy, careless writing, an attempt to communicate without adequate preparation or care. It is writing replete with passive construction,… — Mark Nichol Copy Share Image
When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does"… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“...we can pretend that the book in question is not Mr. West’s but mine, made mine by the madness of my reading.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“their writing. Park, D. et al., “The Role of Expressive Writing in Math Anxiety,’’ Journal of Experimental Psychology:” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
“I've always liked books," she said softly. "I love being around them. I love getting loaf in a story, a world. I… — Bella Andre Copy Share Image
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Writing derives from an accumulation of experience. It's as if you collect facts and observations over time, like a stone to stand… — Harriet Doerr Copy Share Image
“Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
“Only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long, tumultuous stretches; look what intensity did to poor Van Gogh!” — John Tagliabue Copy Share Image
I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
