Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's… — T. Jefferson Parker Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. — Avi Copy Share Image
I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“Writing THE LITTLEST HUNTER: THE JOURNEY BEGINS the first book is The Littlest Series. Sharing my stories with everyone allows me to… — John W. Kurtze Copy Share Image
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For almost a quarter of a century, Teen Ink has been encouraging young people to write - and then has published those… — Anita Silvey Copy Share Image
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When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“There is something about just setting the pen to paper that lifts me and helps to focus my energy and thoughts.” — Susan Elaine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind,… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
My mom was a librarian, so I spent most of my childhood in libraries, learning to love their potential for imagination and… — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
“When hypocrites force me to shut my mouth, I write. But if there's no stationaries at all, I'll write on ground.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“As someone else once said, "Write what you know". Well I know very little, so I write, and illustrate, Nonsense.” — Paul H Tubb Copy Share Image
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
