When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
“We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded.” — Herbert S. White Copy Share Image
The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such… — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you… — Valerie Sherwood Copy Share Image
I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“better? But what would become of me if I didn’t write what I can, however inferior it may be to what I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“He looked at a picture on the wall and saw everything that existed outside the room he was sitting in and the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama.… — John Milius Copy Share Image
I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.” — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
I had definitely missed the literary development game with Paper Lantern Lit, and writing exclusively wasn't giving me complete fulfillment. — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our… — Roz Morris Copy Share Image
“To write is not just seeing the world through a kaleidoscope of possibilities, but a means to shift the tides of color… — H.S. Crow Copy Share Image
“There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.” — Fran Veal Copy Share Image
“Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need a community to succeed. In the back of every book is an acknowledgments page full of all the people it… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
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Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Usually, by the time I hit 'save' before taking a nap, my word count has gone down, but the world I'm creating… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to… — Osman Rashid Copy Share Image
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
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