“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air - I write because I so deeply want to speak.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The biggest trap that all performers and writers find is that when something really crazy, really bad happens, your mind immediately goes… — Riki Lindhome Copy Share Image
“So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem to contain it. But I need the stupid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday.… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me… — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
“Books are what you love. They are what you know. It's obviously your passion. I didn't want you to lose that. You've… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
You like to think with young adults that with your books, a little part of it has reached them and will stay… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“As a boy I was saved from a life of ignorance by my little hometown library. As a college student I was… — James Michener Copy Share Image
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke… — Patricia Lee Gauch Copy Share Image
Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence,… — How It All Began Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
