“I held it close to my face and smelled the ink. I have always loved the smell of ink in a new… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance. — John Hall Wheelock Copy Share Image
Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about? — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are… — T Cooper Copy Share Image
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
“You may borrow them, if you wish," so I could avoid letting him startle me. "I'd like that very much." "I should… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
“The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Life is what it is, a gift that is given to us for a time—like a library book—that must eventually be returned.… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
“I love books down to the full stops. I love them in a way that’s beyond logic and reason. That’s just the… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
