A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“Always be reading. Go to the library. There's magic in being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read bibiliographies. It's… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a horrible exhausting struggle; one would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“...maybe you can curb your bibliophile tendencies for the moment? It's not like we don't have other...priorities…at present." "Nonsense," the bookseller said.… — Greg Cox Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
I guess I'm just the kind of person who likes to do it all. It's fun to put on the writer's hat… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is, in many ways, like a religion. It is a daily practice, a way of life, a set of rituals,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She'd grown up inside books. No matter how dark life became, shutting out the hurt was as easy as opening a cover.… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Close your eyes, pick a random book from the shelf and read it! Is this a correct method? No, wrong method! Make… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
Good writings are never born from people chilling around. Good writings are born from within the piles and folds of pain and… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way,… — Anthony Hamilton Copy Share Image
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
“I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for… — Rachel Scott Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D.… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them. — Dennis Covington Copy Share Image
With 'Brooklyn,' I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I just had a very strong sense that if I turned… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Thanks to Dr Nick Edwards, who helped persuade me to write this book. Feel free to read his book In Stitches. It… — Benjamin Daniels Copy Share Image
My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness,… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
For my 100-day project, I decided to keep a journal. It could be just one sentence. Often, it was just one word,… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel,… — Jonathan Price Copy Share Image
Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare… — John Irving Copy Share Image
