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I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If you're working on a novel, whatever you do, don't say, 'I am almost finished with my novel.' It's worse than chanting… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
There are lots of similarities between being a writer and a lawyer: to tell a story to a jury, hold their attention,… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text; he is in no way supplied with a being which precedes or… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
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If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
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“A book, a good chair, my pipe, and a good bed to go to when night falls, and I'm as happy as… — Warren Lewis Copy Share Image
If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas. — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would… — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“a closed book is a darkness anyone can enter, not a cary darkness like a basement or a storm, but a comforting… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
If I had to read only one author, it would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I love the mystical, magical quality of… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories.… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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