All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Books are in a constant battle for attention in a very crowded media scape. — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful. — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You… — C.C. Chapman Copy Share Image
“The flashing black line on an empty Word document reminds me that my life is counting down second by second, and that… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“writers are like gods in their own little universes, constantly weaving lives, worlds, people, relationships and conflicts into existence.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I don't have one favourite spot - I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit that I do… — Ella Woodward Copy Share Image
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
“Daemon snatched the yellow packages from my hands. “Oh! Books! You have books!” I laughed as several people waiting in line looked… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
The success of 'The Widow' meant there were expectations for the second book from the first word, and it has created a… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
