The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred… — Alan Davies Copy Share Image
People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics.… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the project, I wasn't certain that I could come up with an engaging storyline and cast of characters… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused.… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone… — Martin Short Copy Share Image
The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“In the absence of my beloved and much-derided crime board,’ she said, ‘I’ve been reduced to writing things in my journal like… — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so. — Caroline Dhavernas Copy Share Image
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.' — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“Always keep in mind that writer/ author is the another name of storm. So it can run in any medium with his… — pranita deshpande Copy Share Image
“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“Even sheets felt different at the cottage. On certain days...the sheets were aired out in the sun. I slipped in between two… — Amy Willard Cross Copy Share Image
“I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Once the travel guide came out and won an award, once I got an MFA in creative writing, once I sold my… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do. — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I am truly obsessed with Lena Dunham. I find everything about her unique and refreshing. She is a brilliant, hilarious and honest… — Spencer Kayden Copy Share Image
I am addicted to the highlighter pen, my papers generally a garish mix of type, Biro, unreadable scribble and lashings of luminosity,… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Young people ask why I became a writer, as if it were something I decided. I didn't decide; it grew on me… — M.V. Carey Copy Share Image
I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom,… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
