Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Don't die with your wisdom and experiences longing to live forever after you are gone: write a book.” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“In my stories, I wrote Malcolm as fire and gold and power, but here in my arms, Colin is cedar, silver, and… — Jacqueline E. Smith Copy Share Image
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The world of children's books is a very friendly, decent place to be. It's full of people who are desperate to enlighten,… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I take books on learning to bed - music theory, colour theory - and usually my brain thinks, 'Um, I think I'd… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
“Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write… — Lili St. Crow Copy Share Image
“What’s precious about somebody like Bill Vollmann is that, even though there’s a great deal of formal innovation in his fictions, it… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“LEACH: You write by hand and, famously, do not own a computer. Is there some kind of physical pleasure to be taken… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
