As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls)… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
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I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
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“By then, [1737]...the French were taking advantage of the new "reading rooms" created by architects such as Blondel and of new seat… — Joan DeJean Copy Share Image
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A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it.… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
I'd never been a tract writer; I'd never been a philosopher; I'd never taken part in extraordinary industrial dispute activism; I'd not… — David Lange Copy Share Image
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The things that I have done that haven't been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
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I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
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I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
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