“Oh what a feeling when you happen upon a book that seems to pour truth directly into your head.” — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
“Finished all work for my MTS. Did get to read a lot of very long books.” — Philip Dampier Copy Share Image
“Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).” — J.M. Varner Copy Share Image
“It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak. — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Most of the really fun books that are doing various dialects are also inventing things themselves - they're not pure pastiche. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a noun, it’s a verb. Writing is not a destination, it’s a journey. You should not write to accomplish… — Rodney L. Carlson Copy Share Image
“MAN No doubt about that—I can’t even call ’em “girls” without getting hit by a lawsuit, so … (Grins.) You’re a librarian?… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
“There’s a moment in [Anne of Green Gables] where Anne Shirley (great character) […] is in the same classroom as Gilbert Blythe… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“It was Owen Meany who taught me that any good book is always in motion—from the general to the specific, from the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“What reader or dreamer doesn’t imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
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“(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I like to write about what I've seen and experiences I've been through. — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“You could learn to read in a few months, easy, and magic and reading are sort of the same thing.” — Sarah Wynde Copy Share Image
“All I’ve done is give you a book,” she said. “You have to have the courage to learn what’s inside it.” — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“the publication of his historical novel ‘Shadows Of The Son’ that gave” — Daniel Leston Copy Share Image
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Readers are so much more important than well, just about everything.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning. — Gza Copy Share Image
the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
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