One day I'll have a story to tell. But currently am living that story — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer. — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it’s easy to fool yourself into believing you understand… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You may have wanted to read it when you bought it, but if you haven’t read it by now, the book’s purpose… — Marie Kondō Copy Share Image
“This profusion of questions, exclamations, and tales is the new version of the Society. Its members are spread all over the world,… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
