I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I do not write something… I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
“The love of books is for children who glimpse in them a life to come, but I have come to that life… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
My life is an closed book.. No one ever opened it yet ... Those who opened they Neva read it ... Who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just because you’ve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have,” said Hermione nastily, picking up her quill… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“One day the rotting remains of their libraries will disintegrate so completely that they will be indistinguishable from the world’s wrack of… — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“It is not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books...take it where you can find it,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Be careful. As if something’s going to jump us in a library.” “You might be surprised.” “What do you mean?” “You know… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
“The Nook is an under-appreciated genius of a lovemark. The team at Barnes & Noble got a lot right with the Nook,… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
I don't think I anticipated supporting myself as a writer... I expected I would have to be a teacher or a journalist,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
“Thomas à Kempis: “Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a book.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Again, I don't fully understand my emotion response to the library or trust it. It was the site of a series of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
“My definition of self-published: A printed work distributed by someone who believes more in sharing their story than making a fortune.” — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I… — Gloria Stuart Copy Share Image
“I tend to avoid fiction about dysfunctional urban middle-class people written in the present tense. This makes it hard to find a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.” — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Better and happier those who, recognizing that everything is fictitious, write the novel before someone writes it for them and, like Machiavelli,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
