“Writer's block, for me, is merely a way of saying "I'm too lazy to sit down and give it the proper time."… — Olivia Majors Copy Share Image
Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“It’s not about having a single favorite book—it’s about finding the one that fits the me I want to be on any… — Barb Drummond Copy Share Image
Writing about traumatic events in your life is actually much harder than being there the first time round because you have to… — Gok Wan Copy Share Image
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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“He also entered a bookstore called “Books ‘n’ Stuff,” that stocked more videos and greeting cards than books. Furthermore, its supermarket lighting… — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't really have a schedule; I just get up in the morning. I work at home. I don't feel that my… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“These are the moments which possess the writer, not the lover, and which live on perpetually. One can return to them time… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique…and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books… — Briar Kit Esme Copy Share Image
As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the… — Caroline Rody Copy Share Image
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“My main objective in writing is to open the minds of my readers, to say 'the world can be a wonderful place… — Gary Crew Copy Share Image
Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?” — Austin Wright Copy Share Image
I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect. — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I take books on learning to bed - music theory, colour theory - and usually my brain thinks, 'Um, I think I'd… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
The world of children's books is a very friendly, decent place to be. It's full of people who are desperate to enlighten,… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“CHAPTER 10: For questions about librarians featured in erotic literature, you will find absolutely nothing in the public library.” — Josephine Carr Copy Share Image
“These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
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