“In writing 'here', I freely admit that many times I read it 'there' and placed it 'here'. But the ultimate joy comes… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
“I believe that the choice of a first book, the book that opens your eyes and quickens your soul, is as involuntary… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Learning to read – really read, that is, to spend hours alone lost in a book – requires example and solitude, and… — Andrew Cook Copy Share Image
If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
“The Library was outmoded and archaic—it had been so even in Ebling Mis's time—but that was all to the good. Pelorat always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Objectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your… — Kathleen Edwards Copy Share Image
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Books were the main reason Rose worked in bookstores, for no matter how chaotic and strange the worlds in them might be,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd… — Leanne Pooley Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
All you need is a transformation of the mind. You need to break free of all worldly influence. You do not need… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace. — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
“Prospero wanted to drowm his book. I just threw mine across the room and jumped on it a couple of times.” — John Beamish Copy Share Image
And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“If only we could reach back before the concept, could write on a level with the senses, record the infinitesimal variations of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
“I have yet to face Writer's Block and I don't believe I ever will. It is much more difficult for me to… — Kenneth J. Ester Copy Share Image
