It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place. — Pierre Berton Copy Share Image
I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you. — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. — Denis Parsons Burkitt Copy Share Image
The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“For many writers the goal is a 1,000 words a day. For me - just give me one thought, and the words… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. — Franklin Pierce Adams Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“I've been living in fear. I've been living only in books. Which is fine, but … I don't want to just read… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Life is but an open Book, with many pages to fulfill. It is soely upon oneself to which the pages shall read.… — Mike D Copy Share Image
“In an infinite universe, all things are possible -- within physical limits, that is -- and any book that can be written… — Rand Miller Copy Share Image
I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Sad Things Why do you write sad things? he asked. When I am here, when I love you. Because someday , in… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
