“. . .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 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
“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
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
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
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
Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“I lose myself in the fiction I write in the same way I would lose myself as a younger man in the… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some… — Anne Lamott 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“Writing Frank was a little cathartic, since it gave me the chance to climb on my soapbox and expose readers to a… — Bru Baker Copy Share Image
“To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what… — George H. Scithers Copy Share Image
“If I may paraphrase Hobbes 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
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