Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted… — Harry Golombek Copy Share Image
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink,… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize.… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
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Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
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It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
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“Dessy, don't grow up to be a writer. Because when you live too much in your own head, you neglect the people… — Kristen Tracy Copy Share Image
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.” — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
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I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
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The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I've been writing articles for newspapers and magazines. And writing is a very beautiful way of expression. — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
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![“There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].” quote by Harlan Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/091/harlan-ellison-2133_chickens_there-is-harlan-ellison-the-human-being_2766268.jpg)
![“To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.” quote by Sugar Ray Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3db/sugar-ray-leonard-3228_being-honest_to-be-honest-i-don-t-know-i-started-one_2524467.png)
