There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
Some day I'll write a book and call it 'How I Got the Nickname Pumpsie' and sell it for one dollar, and… — Pumpsie Green Copy Share Image
All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I would also write down my fears and look at them. When fears stay stuck inside your head, your imagination can go… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
“There’s a bookcase lining an entire wall. By the window there’s an armchair and another lamp, with a stack of books illuminated… — Sally Thorne Copy Share Image
“Lina had never seen anyone so disorganized as the doctor. She peeked into the medicine room once when the doctor was out… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
“There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Writers' rooms are terrifying. You take someone whose never done this before, and this is their life's dream that is about to… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
VLife comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“Editing is a kind of creative activity where, in a perfect world, an author and an editor find that elusive oneness to… — Sahara Sanders Copy Share Image
You think you're writing the most important book, you think you're writing the most stupid book, and you never really know before… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended… — Ken Bruen Copy Share Image
“If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people.… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher.… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
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