The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library. — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced… — Tana French Copy Share Image
There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“You're welcome. I love the bargain book section. I always find some good deals at more than half off the cover price.” — Amy Clipston Copy Share Image
“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Cooper's 'The Wake of the Wind.'… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Because, as I would always tell myself so many years later, lying here in my bed: You can't start out again in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“Reading's ability to beam you up to a different world is a good part of the reason why people like me do… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
