I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Writers keep writing and publishers publishing - it never grows boring. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“You know, missing someone can sometimes be the best thing for a writer.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work. — Daniel J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published… You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I don't plan anything out, and I don't write in chronological order. The emotional tenor is what guides me, but a lot… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed.… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. “Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
