When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was… — Shantel VanSanten Copy Share Image
“If my life were a book, I would have masking tape holding my hinges together. My pages would be loose, my edges… — Kate Carlisle Copy Share Image
When you write about people three dimensionally, it inspires a sense of empathy. That would be something that I want people to… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
“Stories are truth. Through writing, you can say so much more than in speaking. Writing is not fantasizing, writing is telling the… — Theprinceoftworealities Copy Share Image
“I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious. Actual formal considerations… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend… — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Palgolak was a god of knowledge. ... He was an amiable, pleasant deity, a sage whose existence was entirely devoted to the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a… — Hannah Strom-Martin Copy Share Image
“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
“I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer… — John Green Copy Share Image
There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“I think that writing should be honest and simple, and it should say something about what it means to be a person.… — M.V. Carey Copy Share Image
Discovery still happens in the writing. You start in nonfiction with a whole lot more going for you, because all the discovery… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands… — Christian A. Dumais Copy Share Image
“A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I’m so great but because in order to get to me you… — César Aira Copy Share Image
In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“There are books for when you're bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you're calm. The best kind, in my… — Roberto Bolaño translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Copy Share Image
“When an author took the time and trouble to choose exactly the right words and arrange them in the right order, there… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“I was ripe for the first escapist avenue that came my way. I will forever be grateful that it came in the… — Liesa Mignogna Copy Share Image
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion!… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings… — Jack London Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into… — Paul Anka Copy Share Image
The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I love John Updike immoderately. I am profoundly shocked that he has gone because he was, for me, the greatest American writer… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
