Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...” — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word,… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
I'm not writing necessarily for an audience. I think about the audience at the end, once I have a complete book. But,… — Crystal Hana Kim Copy Share Image
As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just… — Nicola Monaghan Copy Share Image
With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
“I wrote. I wrote all the things I couldn’t say to him. I wrote about how much I believed in us. I… — Kimberly Novosel Copy Share Image
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I feel that the power that storytelling has to change people, to bring them together, to have that cathartic sort of experience,… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
“My reviews of the above books appear in my series, A Literary Cavalcade. Reviews are listed alphabetically by author across the six… — Robert A. Parker Copy Share Image
I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
“Musicians become professionals by playing a hundred live shows. Likewise, writers become authors by publishing a lot of bad work (until it’s… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
One of the biggest drawbacks of our industry is that we haven't nurtured our writers for years. Now, we realise we need… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“All of us and perhaps all of you read in childhood, while in school, that greatest of all monuments of ancient literature,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born… — Edouard Bourdet Copy Share Image
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
Life is a series of events strung together like a phrase of a sentence, forever chancing and forever adapting. Turn the page… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
