fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator. — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
People are like, Hey, Jeff, lemme tell you... I'm like, Hold on, let me get a pen and a piece of paper. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
“Life is too difficult to make me bear with it all, I prefer mostly to stay in the books.” — Roab Woody Copy Share Image
Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling. — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I have loved writing. It has always been one of my passions. — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele,… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they… — Thomas Fleming Copy Share Image
I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I've found, as I've gotten older, it's really difficult to write on the road. There are so many distractions, so many people… — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Having a plan softened by spine into the mattress, quelled the rising simmer within me, setting me right in the same way… — Miriam Gershow Copy Share Image
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom,… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
“A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
If you see in all my books, I have two key intentions. One is obviously to entertain and make sure that the… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“Books are like people: fascinating, inspiring, thought-provoking, some laugh, some meditate, others ache with old age, but still have wisdom: some are… — Gladys Hunt Copy Share Image
