“Right," Jenna said. She was sitting on a desk next to me. She spent most of the class reading those mangas she… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just have to move on and put that chapter of life in the past. Dont close the book, just turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, And makes himself an artificial night. Black… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." The most importnant truth in… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write… — Jonah Peretti Copy Share Image
I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Children need to see themselves in books. They need to see their gender. They need to see their color, hair texture, their… — Christian Robinson Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Wambaugh's naturalistic portrait of the cop world turned 'Centurions' and 'The Blue Knight' (1972) into bestsellers, but his next two books made… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I don't put a lot of pressure on myself when I'm writing. It feels like if I come up with something good,… — Moby Copy Share Image
“You write on the good days and you wright on the lousy days. Like a shark, you have to keep moving forward… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence. It's just like gardening… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“don’t expect a magic formula that’ll make books fall out of your head and automatically give you a wide readership.” — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release. — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn! — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
“Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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