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I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
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While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in… — Ray Guy Copy Share Image
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I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers,… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
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When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes,… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
