Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. — James Atlas Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see. — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character. — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else? — Eric Hill Copy Share Image
If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English.… — Tania James Copy Share Image
“I left the bank because they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems. So I went to the store, but they didn’t accept… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
