Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
[Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
I admire Charles Dickens, mostly for the texture of his writing and the colourful characters he created. His work gives us, I… — David Essex Copy Share Image
The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important.… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I'm not ritualistic about writing. I try to write as often as possible, which means that I have to be able to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
“A good library’s existence is a potential step forward for a community. If hate and fear have ignorance at their core, maybe… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Are you wondering what to write? Let’s start with some general statements that are useful each and every day. Then we’ll create… — Peggy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
“I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“As it turned out, Ilsa Hermann not only gave Liesel Meminger a book that day. She also gave her a reason to… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.” — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. –Harold… — Harold Kushner Copy Share Image
I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“I pulled out my Kindle and started reading to clear my mind, and get lost in other thoughts other than my own.” — Meghan Quinn Copy Share Image
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone… — Orville Prescott Copy Share Image
I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I calmed myself by walking into my nearby bookstore and marveling at all the books other people had written. So many people… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported. — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
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