“I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave… — Judy Delton Copy Share Image
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd be it.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“They didn't have much trouble teaching the ape to write poems: first they strapped him into a chair, then tied the pencil… — James Tate Copy Share Image
When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I'm Writing my stoy. But i'm also plotting my escape from this prison cell. This is my plan. I will do it… — Carolee Dean Copy Share Image
Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Her address book confirmed it, the pages inhabited equally by the living and the dead…Each name called up raucous dinner parties and… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“and although the young writer never met his literary mentor, the spiritual connection between the two writers would never be dissolved.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I like to write about lots of things in real life that people can relate to, that people can I guess connect… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
“When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things… — Olaotan Fawehinmi Copy Share Image
Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will… — Jesse Shera Copy Share Image
[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Dorothy B. Hughes - there's a robust elegance to her writing that I keep responding to again and again. I've read her… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Reading was what I needed to beat back all that noise and silence, those horrible silences. . . .An ink pen was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing.… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
Don't be scared of 'said.' Writers sometimes go looking for alternatives because they worry that 'he said' and 'she said' will feel… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers.” — Georg Lukacs Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot… — Kendall Hailey Copy Share Image
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