“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.” — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“write something you feel about, than delete it. bam! you go back to the start with fresh mind” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear -… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you… — William Campbell Gault Copy Share Image
“If they want to come for you, they will come, and it doesn't matter what you read or what you failed to… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
“Books have no life; they lack feeling maybe, and perhaps cannot feel pain, as animals and even plants feel pain. But what… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled,… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
