“When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“That was the only tragic thing about books: they changed people. All except the truly evil, who did not become better fathers,… — Nina George Copy Share Image
Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn't be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to an entirely… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the diary demands, in a way, the maximum fictionalizing of the utterer and the addressee. Writing is always a kind of… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else.… — Teddy Pendergrass Copy Share Image
“Reading a book carves brand-new neural pathways into the ancient cortical bedrock of our brains. It transforms the way we see the… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
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I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
There's an expression, "God is in the details," and it applies to nothing more than it does to the writing of fiction.… — Donna Levin Copy Share Image
The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there,… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
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One shouldn't say yes in desperation to the first publisher who approaches. New authors especially should wait and weigh their deal and… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
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You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
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