“Trying to achieve an error-free manuscript is almost like trying to fly to the moon on a paper airplane.” — Jon Michael Riley Copy Share Image
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were… — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways.… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“Paranormal suspense and romance together in one non-stop rollercoaster of passion and adventure. - Love Romance Passion” — Terry Spear Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way… — Al Seckel Copy Share Image
“Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.… — Heena Rathore P Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
“Many times when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much,… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
My advice for finding a literary agent would be first, put your work out there as much as possible and hopefully someone… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
“In her autobiographical Giving Up the Ghost (2003), Hilary Mantel reveals: “I have always been addicted to something or other, usually something… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. — T. Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Every real reader must read Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: the whole of his/her life of reading will change its meaning.” — Paolo Milani Copy Share Image
I've tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral-bound… — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. I have no ghost writers. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Write your feeling like resentment and problems to the piece of paper, to remove the heavy feeling in your heart. — Mitch Alapan Copy Share Image
“Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
“how can I write about this when I am afraid of not having time to finish and of stirring up all these… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood — David Seltzer Copy Share Image
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to… — Laraine Herring Copy Share Image
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“That night I sat up writing in my diary writing to Big Me: 'I hope you are alive ' I wrote. 'I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The etiquette of blurbs means it's not hard to not blurb something (if it's not by a friend, or student): everyone knows… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity. — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable. — Geoffrey Wolff Copy Share Image
If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
