“Because the truth is, fiction is one of the most effective time travel machines in the universe and always has been.” — Ann VanderMeer Copy Share Image
What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books at the right… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
I don't answer the phone or do my email; I don't do anything until I've got the day's writing done. I have… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
“The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I keep a journal. I like myself better when I just pour it out. It's easier sometimes, even if you write on… — Fergie Copy Share Image
So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise… — Poggio Bracciolini Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“The return of the Independent Bookstore is the answer to the stack 'em high, sell 'em cheap megastores.” — Kambiz Mostofizadeh Copy Share Image
Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books. — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“It was apparent...that, all over America, thousands of people threw down a book or got up from a television show and said,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Once I'm writing, I'm very disciplined. There's a certain magic. It's like you're living at a deeper current. It's a very complete… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
There's only one ball game for any writer, and it's to keep you turning the pages. That's the whole ball game. That's… — Mike Lupica Copy Share Image
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“One of the inconveniences of stealing books—especially for a novice like myself—is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm not the right person to do it... but I've learned that I have some power to help stories be told… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
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