“Terry Spear weaves paranormal, suspense, and romance together in one non-stop rollercoaster of passion and adventure. - Love Romance Passion” — Terry Spear Copy Share Image
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better. — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
“... before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.” — Jo Deurbrouck Copy Share Image
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance.… — Linden MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The daily writing practice is something I used to hear batted around a lot in writing workshops - which is probably why… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
For me, one of the reasons I love this form - the personal essay form - is because it's a way of… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
When you are in the midst of writing a book, I think it is important to touch base every day. If I… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“I think you can write about what you know for about an hour and a half. Then you have to start bullshitting.… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
Life is like a 1,000 page book. You want to quit halfway through, but then you realize you have a lot left… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good book,… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“We have had a number of books casting the acid of angry rejection over the spirit of our age. They are not… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes the title comes to you at the beginning, sometimes it comes at the end. The very best way in my experience… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in… — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
“If you want to damage a culture - attack it's libraries. Libraries can be as strong as a tree, but they're as… — Stephen Abrams Copy Share Image
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“I love my style of writing. Nope, it's not the most poetic stuff you've ever read but you know, it can evoke… — Erin M. Truesdale Copy Share Image
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and… — Uma Nnenna Copy Share Image
When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but… — Naomi Benaron Copy Share Image
“...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
