My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“There was something beautiful and timeless to her about a hardback without its jacket, a book that could be known in no… — Christopher R. Beha Copy Share Image
“You can’t go wrong by pricing your book in the middle of the road ($4.99–$7.99 for ebooks and $12.99–$17.99 for paperbacks).” — Honoree Corder Copy Share Image
Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.” — John Waters Copy Share Image
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.” — Ursula Markham Copy Share Image
“And as for going into a bookstore and not finding a book suitable for your 13-year-old...maybe you should do some research before… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“I am a reader. A reader isn’t someone who just likes to read, but someone who feels such a strong attachment to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
“Research serves fiction best when it's dissolved entirely into the work, reprecipitated only to be embodied in characters, images, and the sensual… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
“What was it like to be the person who chose books readers would fall in love with, buy for their mothers, and… — Elisabeth Egan Copy Share Image
Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
“I like Sade. I’m re-reading Juliette. I skip the philosophy and read the salacious bits. His descriptive imagination is incredible.” — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same… — David Linley Copy Share Image
“A library will continue to function nicely without every other position, but without the pages it would grind to a stop within… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity… No inspiration is too noble… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that… — Francesca Gregorini Copy Share Image
“Writing is too silly for me. There are no rules. One person tears apart everything you write while another person praises it… — Rahul Kanakia Copy Share Image
“The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear.… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“Modern writers usually don't know what it was like to live in the past, but Rushworth-Brown has done this with great skill… — Paul Rushworth-Brown Copy Share Image
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.” — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
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