“Launches the reader into a story of science and ancient mystery that will blow your mind: [From New York Times bestselling author… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read… — David Shields Copy Share Image
My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?'… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
“Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.” — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
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I always have a notebook - I have kept diaries since I was eight years old. My preferred choice is a Moleskine… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.” — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
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Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
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There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book.… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything. — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
“looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
That's why writing is important to me. Time goes past, and you've been somewhere and come back that hasn't hurt you, and… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people that has to share personal experiences. That's not really the kind of writer I am. I'm… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told. — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
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I don't make noise, I make moves when my moves works it makes da noise for me and while you're busy saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
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