“An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.” — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and… — Tim Perkins Copy Share Image
“Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“You must feel it from within. You must want to write the book. You must desire to write the book” — Emily Gowor Copy Share Image
“Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an… — Christopher T. Garry Copy Share Image
“I hope you have a book telling others how you do what you do. If you answered no, then I challenge you… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
“No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
A lot of the books I read are in Spanish. There's this great author, Garcia Marquez. — Al Horford Copy Share Image
“My true passion has always been to use my status as an author to make a positive impact.” — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination… — Christine Elise Copy Share Image
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at… — John Banville Copy Share Image
