People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
“I write about the emotional crises that we face in our lives. Readers tell me that they identify with my characters. They… — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
“A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturally brave.… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“They parked in a pay-bay on George Square and walked through the gardens, emerging in front of the university library. Most of… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
My idea was always to start with a small press and then move up to a national press. I had those goals… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Novel-reading is indeed unusually private, unusually personal, unusually intimate. It doesn’t happen out there, in front of our eyes; it happens in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books… To be in a… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
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When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“—And I won't deny your neighbors will take you more seriously if you tell them you've written a novel. (Of course if… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it?… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
“The subject of a piece of writing has not suffered the tension and anxiety endured by the subject of the "Eichmann experiment"… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Self-publishing provides more freedom and control, but it also provides more risk. Publishing provides more credibility and promotion, but your vision can… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Owing to the flood of shallow books which really are exhausted in one reading, the modern mind tends to think every book… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
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I wrote 'Mr. In-Between' very quickly when I was about 23. I wrote the penultimate chapter, then realised I'd done something which… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I just kind of talk about what's happening in my life and it's kind of like a therapy session. Usually something good… — Loren Gray Copy Share Image
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I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
