I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book?… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out… — Nathan Rabin Copy Share Image
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing,… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Everything in all the books I once pored over is finished for me now. Penelope Leach. T. Berry Brazelton. Dr. Spock. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As I considered Parker and his absurdist reflection in the Westlake-authored 'Dortmunder' novels, I wrote, 'His natural ability to observe human behavior… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“If you’re looking for other authors who’ll grab your attention and keep it, I’m happy to recommend the following: Blake Crouch’s Wayward… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“Books are Windows of Enchantment - through them we can see - the moving spectacle of life: the farce, the tragedy. Every… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
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I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
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“The book covers are a crucial part of my work - personally speaking. Particularly because, I cannot write a single word of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
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I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
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