“One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. — Mostafa A Copy Share Image
A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent. — Stuart Woods Copy Share Image
I think people have the wrong idea of 'Moby Dick' as this somber, boring thing. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather… — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I see a skill developing of writing about not just feelings that I'm feeling, but things that I deeply care about as… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Fiction writing is art. It therefore, has few mathematical or scientific limits to its evolution. The writer must always push forward, experiment,… — Ron Gavalik Copy Share Image
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I've been a writer since I was 13. I've been writing scripts and having pitch meetings. So, when I do see people… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
