Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring. — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I guess I feel it's funny to be looked to for advice on writing when I am still taking in so much… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a really natural part of writing: You lose perspective, and you have to let it go sometimes in… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I've chosen television because of the quality of material that I'm offered, not being a writer, so I've turned a lot of… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
I have a background writing screenplays and teleplays. I've tried to write prose and fiction but never really completed anything I thought… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Keep writing, dreaming and creating. There are no boundaries to your imagination. Writers are gifts to the world.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
I always knew I'd be leaving government someday. I just didn't know when. There was something about knowing that it was temporary… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
