“Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“To the Reader" As you read, a white bear leisurely pees, dyeing the snow saffron, and as you read, many gods lie… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry –… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
When I'm late it matters, but when everybody else is late it doesn't matter... If that's the rule then just write it… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Your problem is that you’re more like an empty book and you’re waiting on someone else to write your pages for you.… — Garry Crystal Copy Share Image
“The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to… — Josh Elliott Copy Share Image
Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. “If the water is dark,” goes a German… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I look forward all day to evening, and then I put an "engaged" on the door and get into my nice red… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
“I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the… — Julie Tetel Andresen Copy Share Image
“Literature is a source of pleasure, he said, it is one of the rare inexhaustible joys in life, but it's not only… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as… — John Updike Copy Share Image
