I made 'Supreme Clientele' what it is. Those are my stories, based around whatever they're based upon. It's me. — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul,… — Ernest J. Gaines Copy Share Image
“Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city,… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I got interested in writing at a early age, and wanted to be an outdoor writer. And was trained to, encouraged to… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It can be difficult workshopping novels because any questions or qualms you have as the author can be like, 'That's next chapter,… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I've come to the possible conclusion that being a comedic writer/director is like running track. You do it for a certain amount… — David Wain Copy Share Image
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
For me - showing a half-finished manuscript is tricky. Just as a bird will get spooked and abandon her eggs if some… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“In what must surely be considered one of the great lost scripts of history (or a Saturday Night Live sketch), Chase brought… — Brett Martin Copy Share Image
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)” — Francisco de Quevedo Copy Share Image
“Everyone was driven to write.It was Gorky's fault--he had announced that "literature should be written by working people",and showed with his own… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
For me, it's really important when I go into a reading to not have any bias and so that's a big reason… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.”… — Dennis Ward Copy Share Image
“It was clear that people were not rushing to the shelves. In fact, I’d never seen anybody in a library pick up… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
Mass market paperback thrillers are a dime a dozen. The trick is to find something that actually sticks to the ribs. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper. — Lee Kelly Copy Share Image
I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write… — Thomston Copy Share Image
Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
“Being a writer of 'literary fiction' means going on and on about something long after the reader has gotten the idea. ...Dan… — Dan Ahearn Copy Share Image
“I believe half of a writer’s job is to, really, take you to another world and give you a view of things,… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night. — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
Present company excluded, this looked to be the most pleasant detention ever experienced by mankind. Further proof that librarians should run the… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
