You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
You can only absorb so much information by reading a book before getting your hands dirty and learning the hard way. — Bryan Baeumler Copy Share Image
Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I have so much going on inside my head in terms of writing, there's such a large space in my life taken… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
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“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I sit down and I write what I'm thinking and what I feel - it happens all at once, I never stop… — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
“...deeper lesson: that the written word isn't necessarily a chore but can be a window into new worlds.” — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories. — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
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It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
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I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something. — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say… — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
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