“Booksellers in the gross are taken for little better than a pack of knaves and atheists.” — John Dunton Copy Share Image
I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.” — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
“Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.” — Jonathan Heatt Copy Share Image
I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I'm journalling, checking in with myself. I write about the week and how it felt, my hopes and plans. I do it… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“For me, if I have writer’s block it means I know that what I am writing is not working quite right and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
“My limitless ability to weave time and space does not make me a god - just a da-n good writer.” — Edmund Alexander Sims Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading. — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life. — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
