I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues. — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
“On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.' — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
It's my mouth I say what I want too, and it's my wall I can write anything I feel like to write — Junior Dè Rèál Testament Copy Share Image
“I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction. — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
“That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though… — Jamie Craig Copy Share Image
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'High Stakes,' I followed the classical format. I wrote an outline first, then a first draft, then got feedback… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
“Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
Learned to love the fact recognized in the books seems to be only good things, O world, we capture the essence of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I don't know what people think they're trying to do with literary novels, but they're trying to do something. They're trying to… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
“A biography should be faithful to the truth. I do not believe that a biography of a man should be all praises,… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
“It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It’s absolutely essential that a writer know himself, for until he knows his abilities and limitations, his talents and problems, he will… — Charles Shields Copy Share Image
I try to outline. I'm a lazy outliner. I will put the points down of each chapter or series of chapters, but… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“But Ludmilla is always at least one step ahead of you. “I like to know that book exists that I will still… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image