Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“Carefully squeezing through the forest of adults that crowded the aisles, feeling like an intruder in a forbidden temple, he cautiously pushed… — C. Dean Andersson Copy Share Image
What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
When it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, "Oh, I'll start doing this. I'll put the parts… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing… — Jack McClelland Copy Share Image
“I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
“I realize that long hours of reading are not for everyone but I have never ceased to be grateful that they are… — Victor P. Hass Copy Share Image
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it… — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
“Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as… — Joseph Sugarman Copy Share Image
That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer. — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
“A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
