I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen. — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a… — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
I feel as though I never had choice not to be a writer. I feel in my heart of hearts that writing… — Jerdine Nolen Copy Share Image
The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice...And yet, there is wisdom also in William… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than… — Gabe Habash Copy Share Image
Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
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You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
You learn the values that are inherent in the scene that the writer has written. You learn about who you as a… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it.… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If you're going to read a Peretti book, you're going to get a message. But the book is a pretty good read. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
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Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“This is what writing is: I one language, I another language, and between the two, the line that makes them vibrate; writing… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“Getting a flow going with writing can be hard, but sometimes if you dig into the right emotions that you want to… — Faith Clarkson Copy Share Image
As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“between them aren’t yet written. ========== Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel (Graham, Lauren) - Your Highlight” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
“Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
“Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small… — Robin R. Meyers Copy Share Image
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“...writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.” — Thomas King Copy Share Image
I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
