I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14… — Avi Copy Share Image
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“god be thanked for books. they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.” — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A more generous, more useful interpretation of the phrase is that we should write about what we know, *however we come to… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage,… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
One of my favorite stories growing up was A Wrinkle in Time. I loved that book. I still remember the image, so… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“If I never had another book published, and it was very clear to me that this was a real possibility, I still… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
“I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation… — Oliver Copy Share Image
I didn't publish my book until I was 37. So the ability to pay my bills, pay my rent, make a life… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well...… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to… — Avi Copy Share Image
It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published. — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting… — John Michael McDonagh Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Have you ever had one of those days when you hate the world ? And anything that happens , even dropping your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“You taught me to think, and you put ideas in my head. People read to forget. Books don't change the world, ji.… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
“He nods, his eyes on her like he's reading a book he's just getting to the end of and can't be interrupted.” — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it… — Patricia Birch Copy Share Image
Now, as I've gotten older I've been able to write more quickly. Sometimes I get in the space of something and I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and… — B.J. Novak Copy Share Image
Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
