Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He… — Kris Saknussemm Copy Share Image
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I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
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“If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels.… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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“Dispersal was a conscious strategy of the plunderers. Only by destroying these collections could they build up new ones. Many of these… — Anders Rydell Copy Share Image
Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
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Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
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I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . .… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
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So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman 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
I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
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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
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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