I took notes on the people around me, in my town, in my family, in my memory. I took notes on my… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“A novelist's job is almost to be a stupid as possible, except in the cunning moment when you need to structure something,… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“In a book of fiction the purpose is to create, for myself, the kind of world I want and to live in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“In my plain thoughts I don’t know what else is needed to make this the happiest as well as the most respect-worthy… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“You have to store up books, becoming acquainted with human experience; let them lie around your thoughts, becoming yours—ring upon ring, as… — Viktor Shklovsky Copy Share Image
The copywriter uses words as tools to persuade and motivate an audience. You persuade your readers that you have something valuable to… — Richard Bayan Copy Share Image
“The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller… — Georges Limbour Copy Share Image
“At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, walls of James Patterson… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“As long as I’ve got a book, it doesn’t matter where I am. I can instantly be a million miles away, in… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
After the editing room, I go and take a nap. I'm not in the practice of writing, and I feel like I'm… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
If you sort of see yourself writing into a space that you don't always recognize, you sometimes learn things that you knew,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation -… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“I had started keeping a journal, and I was discovering that I didn't need school in order to experience the misery of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
To put it one way, a collection of Shakespeare's plays is richer than a phone book that uses the same number of… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
When you're actually inside the experience of writing something, in some ways, you're just writing. Ultimately, you fall in love with the… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written expressly for children. The other is written for everyone, including… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“The best thing you can do for your kids is to encourage reading for pleasure--it makes required school reading so much easier… — Raven Black Copy Share Image
“Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I… — Roberto Bolaño translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Copy Share Image
“In another Nabokov novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight , Sebastian's brother discovers two seemingly incongruous pictures in his dead brother's… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Book Bans Are Dumb (Sonnet 1587) Book bans are dumb, It makes the mind numb. If banning books were justice, Middle ages… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
