A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You are crazy!" whispered Meggie. "You're a total lunatic!" But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. "So what? All… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
“That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job… — Bindu Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can't write a novel for weeks and weeks, but it's good for your self-esteem to work on something else. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Somebody who had read Lila asked me, ‘Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?’ I said: ‘It’s not a problem.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book. A message to us from the dead - from human… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry — this is an interesting paradox —… — Harley King Copy Share Image
I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of… — David Almond Copy Share Image
The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
“First, her father had a minor stroke, giving Claire a glimpse of his mortality and, by extension, her own. And then she… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self.… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“It’s a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read,” Monty replied blandly. The Crow… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business. — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it. — Jillian Bell Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“Read your paper backward , sentence by sentence, as a final proofreading step. This technique isolates each sentence and makes it easier… — Claire B. May Gordon S. May Copy Share Image
“I read because I like it. It passes the time and it sucks you in so you don’t have to think about… — Amity Hope Copy Share Image
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
“If we give up on having library collections (digital or otherwise) and outsource access to and preservation of knowledge to corporations, we… — Barbara Fister Copy Share Image
As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like.… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M.… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I am something of a ham. Yeah, I'd always been a writer. But in high school, I acted in plays. So it… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence. — James Frey Copy Share Image
I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed. — Anne Clark Copy Share Image
I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
