Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
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“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Every single path is so different, but I would definitely say that the idea of what a writer is or should be… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I write when the baby is asleep or when I'm on the road I write a lot... There's always time to do… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“(At this point some readers are quite likely to close this book and never open it again … but I hope you… — Brian Zahnd Copy Share Image
Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way.… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My process with starting a new project and whatnot is I begin around a title. Usually, based off of just a title,… — Alexander Spit Copy Share Image
“Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“What can we do, then, to recognize that yes, grading and its traditions are still present, but so is the writer? Feedback,… — Patty McGee Copy Share Image
Your first attempt will be terrible… Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft… Whenever someone… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'll borrow words from all my favourite paragraphs, to write about all of these faded things we hope would mean the most… — Mayday Parade Copy Share Image
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in… — Clare Boylan Copy Share Image
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Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
“I had decided to become a bookseller because I loved good books. I assumed there must be many others who shared a… — Stuart Brent Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think the book business is really sitting on the greatest moment in the history of time. We are providing the stories… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down,… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Always refer your sadness as the end of a page, where you are frustrate to write anything in those last 2-3 lines,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is like a book; Don't jump to the end to see if it's worth it. Just enjoy life and fill the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night. — John Searles Copy Share Image
