“And of course, if it's a book and it's cheap, Mommy can't say no as easy.” — Winnie M. Li Copy Share Image
I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers — Ryne Sandberg Copy Share Image
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." — Gustave Flaubert” — Minnie Estelle Miller Copy Share Image
“Your life is a screenplay, you must be the author; direct and make it a success.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work. — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“[U]se extreme caution, and please remember that 451 degrees Fahrenheit is more than just a book a title…” — Ammon Shea Copy Share Image
Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to… — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
“The space is appropriately shoe-boxy and all the shelves are there. I've set them up with a coordinate system, so my program… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing?… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
“My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. If you really want to write, then shut yourself… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I would rather have ten books I'd read again and again than a hundred books I'll never read.” — Jo Grix Copy Share Image
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival — Nora Gallagher Copy Share Image
Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing. — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
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