My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
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“If you aren't writing perfection, don't stop and hope tomorrow's is better. Write what you have today, and let it ferment into… — Nicholas May Copy Share Image
My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
“The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
I try to take notes of things that happen that I think are important or interesting or just little tidbits here and… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
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It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean… — Randy Murray Copy Share Image
I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would… — Srinidhi.R Copy Share Image
This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
“Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities… — D'Angelo Copy Share Image
What has stayed true in my life as a writer is my dedication to writing - I try to write every day,… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
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“Sometimes writing is easy. Other times it’s as hard as trying to eat a whole whale, after the whale has just eaten… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It's two A.M. To sleep or to write that is the question? Whether it tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
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Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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