“For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
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I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Reading Bukowski and Burroughs and Henry Miller doesn't necessarily mean that a kid is going to try to emulate their debauchery to… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I hope, that in the days, and weeks, and years to come, the question of where the dividing lines between adult and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, and I had started a lot of books and failed… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about… — Jan Burke Copy Share Image
“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know… — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Only one hour in a day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“let the story go, and still clutched F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise in my arms as if to let it… — Karen White Copy Share Image
No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do the math correctly 226 Pages book = 3 days = 150 Pages each day 50 pages... or 4x50 250... ... 4 Days 50 pages ... Math = Life Life = Math” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“Habits of an empowerED teacher: “read, notice, think, make theories about how writing works, imagine possibilities, write yourself; it isn’t magic, it’s… — Penny Kittle Copy Share Image
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed… — Rachel Cohen Copy Share Image
“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways,… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“The book identifies you as part of the tribe. On the opposite extreme, there are people who will walk up to you… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
I could've wrote down every thought I've been thinking to myself all this past year, but would it stand out? Woah, I… — The Ready Set Copy Share Image
