It does no one any good to say their novel sucks if you don't have an idea how to make it better,… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
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I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation.… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of… — Elsie Clews Parsons Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so… — Sylvain White Copy Share Image
“Not a single atom in our bodies today was there when we were children. Every bit of us has been replaced many… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Sara Creasy is a new writer to watch, and Song of Scarabaeus is a novel to read and enjoy. . . .… — Vonda N. McIntyre Copy Share Image
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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