Writing isn't like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers. — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“If you aren't writing perfection, don't stop and hope tomorrow's is better. Write what you have today, and let it ferment into… — Nicholas May Copy Share Image
I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
“Our taste for books came from Antonin, an old second-hand bookseller, an anarchist, whose shop was on Cours Julien. We'd cut classes… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
“The use of reading, Gibbon says somewhere, is to aid us in thinking. I have always disagreed with Gibbon over that; he… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable… — Joel McIver Copy Share Image
With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
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I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
“The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
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Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
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For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
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Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
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