“A Book I Can Put Down I’m halfway through and I’ve gotten used to the way it wants to be read. This… — Antonia Clark Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“They are the efforts of someone who, overarced by stars that are human handiwork, and who, shelterless in this till now undreamt… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
“And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can.… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me... to try something new,… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“You don't have to have the most exciting life to write. If you have a story to tell, tell it; or better… — J.Y. Barris Copy Share Image
Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
I'm looking forward to coming to SleuthFest I've heard so many good things about it from my writer friends. I'm looking forward… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“I tried to read that book again before I went to sleep. I didn’t like that book, but I kept going for… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Be a scribe! Your body will be sleek—your hand will be soft . . . you are one who sits grandly in… — Ptahotep 4500 BC Copy Share Image
I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing… For he does his work alone and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“To reduce a library to simple architecture, bricks and mortar is a mistake. Similarly, to suggest a library is defined by the… — Hardeep Singh Kohli Copy Share Image
When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted… — Jackie Morse Kessler Copy Share Image
“Sophia, with real nobility of character, then asked Papa to explain something she had read in Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
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