The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better. — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused. — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
I really do like to write and when I'm not, I think, "Okay, I'll be a good citizen now" but fact is,… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“What do you do when you cannot see any light? Where do you go when you cannot see any path? So I… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I want you to hear how I can tell stories. I want you to hear how I can make these records about… — Kirko Bangz Copy Share Image
“A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special knowledge,… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
“A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“ My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
“Whether it means producing a piece of art, writing a short story, or simply bringing beauty into our home or into the… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Growing up, books were my best friends, just because I didn't really have a lot of peers as deaf kids. So I… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But in the end, it isn’t up to the writer to decide how his or her work will be used.” — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Writing is also like love, if one can't have the courage to be a renunciant, they cannot write well.” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The main thing is finding the time to sit down and write. You have to make the time.” — Lisa Newton Copy Share Image
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