I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans. — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“One of the great gifts of fiction is that it asks us to stretch our empathy.” — Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Copy Share Image
This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted… — Harry Golombek Copy Share Image
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink,… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“It might not be so unpleasant, you know, to do me one or two favours in exchange for becoming a famous authoress.” — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
Sorry friend I don't known any author of this filled,, no ones is my ideal, it's my filling, my experience, or my… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
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The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“The trick is to make time—not steal it—and produce the fiction. If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
I was 45 when I wrote most of this book [Hungry Heart ], at what felt like a halfway point in my… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“I'm happy when I write. I've written my first novel, my pencil is down. My last work has been written. No turning… — Missy Salick Copy Share Image
In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I'm not seeking for answers; I just want to tell stories and state my opinion. — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other. — Billy Strayhorn Copy Share Image
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“You know it's desperate," she said. "Shane is going to the library. ” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
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