“I always write from my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.” — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“If you’re afraid you can’t write, the answer is to write. Every sentence you construct adds weight to the balance pan. If… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Don’t write your books for people who won’t like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“I want to go somewhere good when I read, not into someone else's crappy life.” — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
“once she was engrossed in a good book, all other sounds faded into the background.” — Adele Abbott Copy Share Image
The best way to get me to write more books is to read the ones that exist! — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
