I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book. — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I have to write, as if I were carrying out a punishment. And the greatest punishment is to know that whatever I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there is no chemistry between writer and reader, so - give up. Not all books are meant to be read.” — My mother Copy Share Image
In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“But for the rest of us, we should be regularly reassessing why we write. When we know what we’re going for (human… — Tasha Golden Copy Share Image
I haven't written anything yet that makes me think, This is it! and I don't imagine I ever will. I don't know… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“A writer is an explorer. She knows she wants to get somewhere, but she doesn’t know if the somewhere even exists yet.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I am a very emotional person. I basically think and feel in emotion, so writing is much easier for me than communicating… — Kelly Oxford Copy Share Image
Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't… — Jill Ciment Copy Share Image
Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force! — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
When you go into projects, you can't look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true… — Jolene Purdy Copy Share Image
“Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know? Far better to read a few… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I never worry about “thinking up” an idea for a story. I watch the people around me. Each one is a story.” — Marion Reidel Copy Share Image
“No matter what our age, we ought to never stop eating books, for books are the feast of the imagination.” — Robin R. Meyers Copy Share Image
“(this is before we're living together, before we do the most faithful act of all, mix our separate books into one library)” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so… — Fan Bingbing Copy Share Image
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
You know, it really doesn't matter what (the media) write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences -… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is… — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my… — Avi Copy Share Image
