“Trust me, dear, with the amount that you read, I guarantee that your eyes will never go bad.” — Lindsey Renee Backen Copy Share Image
The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The really great writers are people like Emily Bront� who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
“Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Writing isn’t necessarily a gift it is a passion. You can write a one page masterpiece to 99 pages of crap. What… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
