Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing. — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
“For anyone who wants to write, and hopes some day to publish what he or she has written, it is far more… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment,… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Like many American readers, I was first introduced to Magda Szabo's work when New York Review Books reissued the Hungarian master's profound… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pacing is not the sort of thing you can plan out beforehand, but you're always aware of it as you write, because… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“You want to know a secret?” I asked. “Sure,” she said halfheartedly. “I love to sniff the insides of books,” I said… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“The invention of “electronic ink” is just around the corner. This invention will enable the use of flexible paper-like devices to display… — Scott Shay Copy Share Image
“...a book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Immie put on her sunglasses. “Forrest’s writing a novel.” “What kind of novel?” asked Jule. “A little Samuel Beckett meets Hunter S.… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Please don't entertain for a moment the utterly mistaken idea that there is no drudgery in writing. There is a great deal… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
“This was the writer's true doppelgänger, I thought; not some invisible imp of the perverse who watched you from the shadows, periodically… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
