Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd… — Leanne Pooley Copy Share Image
Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
All you need is a transformation of the mind. You need to break free of all worldly influence. You do not need… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace. — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Writing the short story is essentially an act of grace. It's not a matter of will so much as trust. I try… — Paulette Alden Copy Share Image
“Historians, to be sure, have subsequently dug about in the byways of American culture and exposed signs of rebellion and dissatisfation with… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“WELCOME to my bookamabob! Buckle your cravat and prepare for have your whiskers quiver. My story of struggles, successes and sergei is… — Aleksandr Orlov Copy Share Image
Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The good thing about books is that they remain themselves. What happens in their pages stays there. Harriet does not like the… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“Modern writers usually don't know what it was like to live in the past, but Rushworth-Brown has done this with great skill… — Paul Rushworth-Brown Copy Share Image
“The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear.… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.” — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“In writing 'here', I freely admit that many times I read it 'there' and placed it 'here'. But the ultimate joy comes… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
“I believe that the choice of a first book, the book that opens your eyes and quickens your soul, is as involuntary… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I love my journal as much as I love my phone. I find it to be a big part of my self-care… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
“Learning to read – really read, that is, to spend hours alone lost in a book – requires example and solitude, and… — Andrew Cook Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
