There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee. — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Good writings are never born from people chilling around. Good writings are born from within the piles and folds of pain and… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way,… — Anthony Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Close your eyes, pick a random book from the shelf and read it! Is this a correct method? No, wrong method! Make… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
“The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she… — Lucy Dillon Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D.… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for… — Rachel Scott Copy Share Image
Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a very difficult craft. Just like learning an instrument, it takes a long time and I couldn't really… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies,… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible. — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say... — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Johnson Publishing Co. has always had a first-class image. And until the day I die, I want to keep that image. — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Boy, this is your lucky day!" She clapped her hands. "You found yourself a librarian! I can help wit the figuring-out thing… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it -… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement. — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
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