If we declare ourselves, as readers, to be on the side of life, the question has to be asked what sort of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“A worry journal by your bedside can act as a mental depository of your anxieties, and once you write them down, you… — Suhas G. Kshirsagar Copy Share Image
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike Copy Share Image
If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
“Don Raimondo tells me what he can’t tell them. “The emptiness on the surface of a wall left by a sold bookshelf… — Erri DeLuca Copy Share Image
My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“We are all misfits, poseurs, and clowns. We are heartbroken and lonely, failures in life, criminals and frauds. Most of our successes… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be… — Robert J. Randisi Copy Share Image
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“When an idea suddenly appears I feel compelled to get it on paper and I keep writing until the flame disappears. Love… — Lee Bumbicka Copy Share Image
That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I have learned one lesson as a writer...keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today...may… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write every day if I can. I think the idea is to try and chip away at it as… — Wesley Schultz Copy Share Image
“Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.” — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s… — David Mikics Copy Share Image
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge I think every publisher is facing is how do we get readers to pay for content? So we're constantly… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while you come across a novel that reminds you why you think you enjoy reading in the first… — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers. — Sjon Copy Share Image
