“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
“Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To write a good story there are four things that every author needs: 1. A beginning 2. A middle 3. An ending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
“Jim Lindeman made a comment in the group The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group — Foreign Detective Fiction topic ""No person or… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When the writing is going well, I'm obsessive. I don't shower, I don't take phone calls, I hardly respond to text messages,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“The phrase “slow reading” goes back at least as far as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who in 1887 described himself as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She usually operated under the assumption that quantity tended to beget not only quality, but also traffic. The more you wrote, the… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“Worrying about your book’s marketing plan when you haven’t even finished writing the book is a noble obstacle. Weighing grams of carbohydrates… — Jon Acuff Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should have writer's block. I think they should write. Imagine you were a bus driver and you said,… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same… — Eliot Sumner Copy Share Image
Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center… — Hannes Holm Copy Share Image
Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks. — Roy Bedichek Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. — Laura Elliott Copy Share Image
Life is too short to waste time reading shitty literature. There are plenty of other books in the sea...~D. — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I will take all the adversities in my life as a sharpner that sharpens my personality time and again, which will help… — Aruna Rai Copy Share Image
I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I… — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual.… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. if you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something… — Ann M. Noser Copy Share Image
