“It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…” — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. —Mark Twain” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not. — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
“This was the stuff of novels with -- yeah -- men like him on the cover.” — Erin Kellison Copy Share Image
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It holds my essential stuff, including a book—for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“In books there’s nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space.… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
You must stop editing--or you'll never finish anything. Begin with a time-management decision that indicates when the editing is to be finished:… — Kenneth Atchity Copy Share Image
“The apartment was entirely, was only, for her; a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
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