A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Do you have any idea how hard a story is to write? My brain is jumpy, and my heart doesn't know where… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
A wise woman once told me "you shouldn't have written that song" I now believe her completely. I should've never put that… — Danny Worsnop Copy Share Image
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough… — Jud Wilhite Copy Share Image
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices,… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I always write from a personal place - whether it be about my friends or myself or a story that I heard. — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not. — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'. — Marjorie Scardino Copy Share Image
I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention. — Candice Bergen Copy Share Image
“The reader is more important than the writer but the writer should never write just for the reader---authentic writing is a must… — Alexander M. Zoltai Copy Share Image
Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
“Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem. (...) She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again. — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
“I glance back as I am pulling the door shut. I can see Mrs. Kasperek on her bed, in the apartment denuded… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was:… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write 100% of my material by myself. That's really important to me because I don't want what I'm trying to say… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
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