“I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Each of us will make his own shelf of books. The book for me is the book that delights, attracts, soothes, or… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
“Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“She’s definitely a romance writer. I’ve primed her to be a romance writer, subjecting her to so many romantic dramas it would… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people that has to share personal experiences. That's not really the kind of writer I am. I'm… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Because a writer can't influence people, in the sense of making them think and feel and act as he does. He can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The first pages of any book I remember reading, in Pinner Wood primary school, were from The Beacon Readers: stories of Farmer… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“For a girl who often felt like she lived more in the cozy world of books than in the unforgiving world of… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe I can save people. I've tried, and I've failed, and while I'm sure there are people out there… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
That's why writing is important to me. Time goes past, and you've been somewhere and come back that hasn't hurt you, and… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told. — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I don't make noise, I make moves when my moves works it makes da noise for me and while you're busy saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages,… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in… — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think we're so often, as writers, afraid of writing something that is less than perfect, and that fear paralyzes us. I'm… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
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