“Book lovers, readers who cherish the feel, smell and look of the printed book are concerned about the demise of the printed… — Daniel Alef Copy Share Image
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“It is quite impossible to write a worth-while novel about a Jew or a Gentile or a Homosexual, for people refuse, unhappily,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“I loved books—not only the stories they contained, but the feel of them in my hands, the silk of the pages, the… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together” — Margaret Truman Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to go to a different place now. As a person... I want to step off whatever this… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was… — Maynah Lewis Copy Share Image
When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, not an actor. I want to write rather than perform. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I'm a massive reader. I actually really love to collect antiquarian literature and I love that my job allows me to travel… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
“The quick and dirty way is to write down a one-line description, in the simplest terms possible, of what I’m creating, along… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
We've been moving around so much that I have a Tupperware container full of my books. Some people have a blanky; I've… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He recalled Mark Twain’s words, “Truth is stranger than Fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is the biggest trick of the sort of thing I write: creating fun, powerful stories with tons of interesting stuff going… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
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