No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
I guess that my opinion of writing about real people is informed by defenses of Joyce Maynard's memoir, that the experiences were… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think I've had a certain amount of success at making phrases. I'm a good writer. But obviously, I'm incredibly flattered and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“lives. And some old witch in Bath had a book that you could never stop reading! You just had to wander around… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When I'm there, it's pure silence. There are other writers there, too, and I get super competitive. I have this weird fear… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark,… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“So all you desi boys and girls, dark skin or not, you are beautiful just the way you are. No need to… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
“Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.” — Meredith Wood Copy Share Image
“It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week… — David Gest Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
“I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better… — Hiroshi Ishizaki Copy Share Image
I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
“I loved my mom because she read the entire Harry Potter series out loud to me, and when we were finished, she… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“She hadn't met Earth or Fire, the other two cousins, but she'd filled a couple of library requests for each of them… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
