“Some times, you write fiction stories. Others, you use fiction to write your story.” — S. Usher Evans Copy Share Image
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll say, wow, that's going be a great story, and I get killed. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“I don't really read as much but I am reading a depressing book on the Holocaust…” — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“Reading was what I needed to beat back all that noise and silence, those horrible silences. . . .An ink pen was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Dorothy B. Hughes - there's a robust elegance to her writing that I keep responding to again and again. I've read her… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Don't be scared of 'said.' Writers sometimes go looking for alternatives because they worry that 'he said' and 'she said' will feel… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot… — Kendall Hailey Copy Share Image
“I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“So it goes as I work my way down the page, and each cluster of marks is a word, and each word… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's… — Rupert Giles Copy Share Image
“Writing is a tough business, but never forget the reason why you write. It’s for the love of story telling. Fame and… — R.L. Bartram Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
If I had to rate them in order of preference, it would be writer, director, actor and then producer. — Rakshit Shetty Copy Share Image
Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Do you know how long it took me to write 'For a Few Dollars More'? Nine days. — Luciano Vincenzoni Copy Share Image
Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences. — William Shunn Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them! — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
