My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is. — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author. — Stuart Taylor Copy Share Image
I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do.… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical? — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four… — Gail Tsukiyama Copy Share Image
I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it,… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
“I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure, in time,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
