When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read… — Madison Pettis Copy Share Image
“Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even… — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
“Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth.… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write. — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Because—and don’t let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was younger, and I think its good for young girls to try… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.” — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while still respecting the… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“The more you can remove any stakes or pressure—just write as fast as you can type—it’s going to come out better.” — Mike Sacks Copy Share Image
I believe that in a good collaboration, the authors bring their strengths to the story; one author's strength cancels the other author's… — Jack Dann Copy Share Image
Life is like a book; Dont jump to the end to see if its worth it. Just enjoy life and fill the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I know society these days, I know people are wanting to find everything they can to pick things apart, but I have… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm just trusting my intuition and my taste and writing it quickly - I'm glad people are gravitating towards feelings. — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
