“This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer. — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter that these are works of fiction and hence less scientific than the numbers and reports. They describe a human… — Christian Madsbjerg Copy Share Image
There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our… — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“What I do in writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Cinematic and symphonic: this is a compelling story revealed in a sequence of voices that are as pitch-perfect as they are irresistible.… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
