“My life had become a helluva plot that could give Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie another New York Times bestseller.” — S. A. David Copy Share Image
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I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the kids also write… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, and I feel… — David Liss Copy Share Image
The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
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I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
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“Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it. Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
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What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
“Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read,… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because,… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I started to write [The Name of the Rose] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
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Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life. — Cao Yu Copy Share Image
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It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think there are probably just as many adults who would miss the humor of my books, if not more, as there… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
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