I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel. — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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“Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal!… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Some writers just write about their own lives. Well, I don't want to do that. I want to have a really boring… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
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The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper. — Mike Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good.” — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
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My mind's monumental, my pen is penetration That produce words that bleed on the pad like menstruation — Elzhi Copy Share Image
You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“I MUST BE A TIME TRAVELLER BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS AHEAD OF MY TIME” — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!" — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
I just feel the need as a writer to try something kind of deep and fulfilling. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them. — David Morrell Copy Share Image
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