I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the… — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
When I do actual sequential work, I really want a story I can get a behind: a story that really holds my… — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“I wrote. I wrote all the things I couldn’t say to him. I wrote about how much I believed in us. I… — Kimberly Novosel Copy Share Image
As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just… — Nicola Monaghan Copy Share Image
Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
“The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of… — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things… — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
“Writing is not just my Hobby . Pen is mouthpiece of my feelings,I have no another one But paper is my best… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed… — Theo Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
When you come to another bridge in your life to cross, move on. Looking back, It's just a chapter in the past,… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The story of John Nash is an amazing, powerful journey. But as unique as this man is, his story is also very… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
