My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs… — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books aren't amoral, they… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“The problem is that the inner critic is actually an indispensable element of any writer’s working life; it is the immune system,… — Patricia Costa Viglucci Copy Share Image
Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
Writing is not magic. It’s a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by… — John Kremer Copy Share Image
When I was reading 'The Underground Railroad,' I had to actually hold my hand over the right-hand page so I wouldn't see,… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment… — James Goodnight Copy Share Image
“That moment you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone else is just getting on with their lives as though… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Books are like women, all more or less have the same form, buts its the intricacies of whats inside that makes them… — Dave Alexander Ramos me Copy Share Image
Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We live in an age where kids are so familiar with screens, I wanted to show that with a little imagination a… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters.… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“One of the best feelings in the world is reading a review by a complete stranger saying that your book is one… — Johnny Moscato Copy Share Image
I've long believed that the work-out life has lessons for the writing life. I've 'solved' a lot of books while at the… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“If your mind jumps to crazy story ideas from little things you see all around you, you might be a writer.” — Thomas Wilson Copy Share Image
Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life… — Ellen Douglas Copy Share Image
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
