A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“Too many writers start with a good idea and carry it through the first chapters, then fall apart because they had no… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk… — James Herbert Copy Share Image
Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world.… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Is that how it goes with writing? That as long as you are writing, no time is ever completely in the past?… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
George V. Higgins's 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' (1970) added an extra literary layer to the con novel; James Crumley's 'The Last… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“A novelist must wrestle with all mysteries and strangeness of life itself, and anyone who dies not wish to accept that grand,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
I usually leave Reykavik for two to three weeks to go to the South Coast of Iceland where I have a small… — Sjon Copy Share Image
I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I like to read to my kids before bed. With my first two sons we went through every Wizard Of Oz book,… — Rob Crow Copy Share Image
THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with… — Fergie Copy Share Image
“The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in the beginning, it was very much surrounding the idea of escape and of fantasy, then when… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I’m in a bookstore or a library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the… — Dave East Copy Share Image
The soul that feeds on books alone - I count that soul exceeding small That lives alone by book and creed, -… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
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