The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Members of the Order take vows of literacy, obstinancy and bibliomancy. Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
A journal is your completely unaltered voice - it's just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it,… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
“I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work… — Clifford Currie Librarian of the Ashmolean Library Oxford Copy Share Image
“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words,… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
It was easy to get a job at the Cedar Bar because people came and went, but I didn't like the atmosphere.… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Publishers are born connectors; they bring like-minded people together. They are also conversationalists of the first order. They foster the interaction between… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in… — John Green Copy Share Image
My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is… — Charlie Rowe Copy Share Image
The royalty any author gets is dependent on his track record and marketability and often on the price of his book, too.… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I would like to one day write a nice big novel and enjoy writing it and people enjoy reading it but I… — Limmy Copy Share Image
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“A really well-done first draft of a book bares your soul. The purpose of revision is so that everyone who reads the… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who… — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Is a twist less satisfying if you know it’s coming? Is a twist that you can’t predict symptomatic of bad construction? These… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
“At some point you’re going to have to formulate your copy, and if you do it early, it will keep you from… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me." — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Us na kaha ya tara sara roona maray leya he to ta ……...jan…… aakhir wo jan he gaya mari muhabat k sheedat… — Anab Rafiq Copy Share Image
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there. — Shaun Evans Copy Share Image
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the… — Andromeda Edison Copy Share Image
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“You write because the brain is an endless wilderness whose roughest terrain can only be traveled with a pencil.” — Durs Grünbein Copy Share Image
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
