When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words,… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“Publishing, I learn later, is a little like the garment industry: You have to be geographically well placed, in New York, for… — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others… — Chasta Schneider Copy Share Image
Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
“If the overuse of adjectives is frowned upon in writing, why are expletives—the ones commonly used as adjectives—embraced?” — Carmen DeSousa Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Editing can feel incredibly burdensome for self-published authors when you are tasked to reread your work, for what feels like, a thousand… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary… — Judith Skelton-Grant Copy Share Image
“there is an osmosis from fiction to reality, a constant contamination which distorts the truth behind both and fuzzes the telling distinctions… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Books are important, and so serious intellectual attention to them is important. While promplty published scholarly articles are also important, the book… — Jeffrey C. Issac Editor-in-Chief Perspectives on Politics 12 2013 Copy Share Image
“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“A good book not only entertains you, but also informs you. And when you finish reading it,you feel as if you have… — Irish Argo Copy Share Image
“Nick had cared about the story; Cath hadn’t. She’d cared about the writing. About the magic third thing that lived between them… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors,… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Cos it's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'Aaaaaagghhh!!' and everyone just stares at you.… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
There's nothing illogical, it seems to me, about saying, 'I am going to care deeply about my work and my writing. I'm… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“I want readers to know I write books I want to read. My goal: to engaged readers like I want to be… — Greg Alldredge Copy Share Image
I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
