Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
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I never write with any kind of message, and I don't think that this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger' has a message in the… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
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The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
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A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
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“Writing is reverse metamorphosis. One entombs a beautiful idea in a chrysalis of paper or electronic bits and bites, and when you’re… — Kermit E. Heartsong Copy Share Image
There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of… — Walter Besant Copy Share Image
The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them.… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
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“Plot these days is anti-intellectual and verboten, the mark of the Philistine, the huckster with a pen. There mustn't be too much… — Robert Traver Copy Share Image
When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
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When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses… — James Arthur Ray Copy Share Image
“Write poorly. Suck. Write Awful. Terribly. Frightfully. Don’t care. Turn off the inner editor. Let yourself write. Let it flow. Let yourself… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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