Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
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“To write, one only needs a pen. Of course, by pen I mean enclosure.” — Heather McGowan Copy Share Image
There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
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I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth… — Wayne Martindale Copy Share Image
Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think it's good practice, if you're a writer, or anyone who's shaping narrative, to be flexible and open with the direction… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
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