We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“It’s important to understand that a writer’s love for creation is only surpassed by their love of having the ability to dramatically… — Danielle Rose Copy Share Image
I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom… — John Irving Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To… — André Brink Copy Share Image
Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good,… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“...a book provides for a distillation of our sporadic mind, a record of its most vital manifestations, a concentration of inspired moments… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have a bad habit of starting a book and reading just far enough to make sure I want to read it… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
