When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
“It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to… — Yael Shahar Copy Share Image
“Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.” — Ally Spina Copy Share Image
“You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I was rooting about among the things for sale when I came on some old books—cheap, well-thumbed copies of the Greek and… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
“Like everywhere else in the world, the book stores of Britain are struggling with being pushed out of the market by online… — Alana Muir Copy Share Image
“Remember, you're reading for pleasure. If you pick up a book and don't like it, put it down. Never read what you… — Philip Riley Copy Share Image
“It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an… — Athanasius Copy Share Image
I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“This was only the second time Carswell Thorne had stopped to ponder one Kate Fallow. The first time, he had wondered why… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole,… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“My life is an open book looking for chapters of love to fill my lonely pages. -Michelle Carithers read more "A Daughter's… — M. Carithers Copy Share Image
“He can’t remember, but he still knows exactly where to find it on his bookshelf, books are willing to wait, he says… — Jenny Erpenbeck Copy Share Image
Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does. — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
People ask me if I am going to write my memoirs. But even if I wanted to, I would not be able.… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with… — John Green Copy Share Image
You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]'… — Jamie McKelvie Copy Share Image
A person with a hundred interests is twice as alive as one with only fifty and four times as alive as the… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“They hauled books from the shelves, flipped through the pages, and tossed them to the floor until an entire library of legal… — Ariel Lawhon Copy Share Image
“. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
“Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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