I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work;… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“The memory of a book, Dana mused as she turned off the light and headed out of the room. Wouldn't life be… — Juliette Fay Copy Share Image
“As writers, we feel things deeper than other people, we hurt more, we love bigger, we cry harder and we smile wider.… — H.D. Gordon Copy Share Image
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story. — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
Do give books, religious or otherwise, for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal. — Lenore Hershey Copy Share Image
The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“The library is now located and maintained at the Institute of Making which is part of University College London. You could rebuild… — Mark Miodownik Copy Share Image
“From "The World's Strongest Librarian who quotes Tom Clancy: The only way to do all the things you'd like to is to… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books… — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
“I have hope in who I am becoming. I have belief in every scar and disgraceful word I have ever spoken or… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience. — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
“The power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn’t easy, but it’s fun and… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it -… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
“On the two-way street of communication, a happy symbiosis is achieved when a writer tosses up an offbeat usage or a puzzling… — William Safire Copy Share Image
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Anna is the sort of woman who writers write about, Tom. Somewhere in the third act, women like her save characters like… — Matthew Norman Copy Share Image
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little… — Hudson Stuck Copy Share Image
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that… — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
