Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book.… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
“A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.” — A.N.L. Munby Copy Share Image
To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own… — Eliot Schrefer Copy Share Image
The only way to learn writing is by writing. Talent, as charming as it sounds, amounts to no more than 12 per… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
“we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I will gladly accept any and all books, however. A person can never have too much reading material. Especially on a fall… — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
“I decided I was going to make up a novel, and that the novel was going to get me out of the… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
“A leader does not only discover what people can do better. He teaches, guides and mentor them to do it exceptionally well.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from… — Rory Edwards Copy Share Image
“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“I met a librian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she wanats… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
When I start working early, I write things that I wouldn't if all my defences were up; I discover the emotional core… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.' — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
