In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book,… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
As a schoolboy, I loved Charles Dickens. His 'David Copperfield' has had the strongest influence on me - I looked up to… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“[But] just as unseen worlds unfold to those who read a book, so worlds hidden to hurried sight unfold to those who… — Priscilla Stuckey Copy Share Image
I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake.… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was… — David Markson Copy Share Image
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It… — Frederick Barthelme Copy Share Image
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
“A writer isn’t a writer because he has a membership card but because he writes. How do you know what bright ideas… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“In a sense, we can tell a lot about anyone by looking at what books, if any, he reads, at what books… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
“And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Writing is the easiest thing in the world… Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
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