It's called 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers. It is absolutely everything the title implies. It's the greatest book… — Justin Hartley Copy Share Image
If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
“Babcock silenced himself when he caught a gratifying sight on the broker’s shelf—his finance book, Moving Ones and Zeros Around like a… — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
“When you are trying to find your writing voice don’t try to emulate any writer, not even your favorite. Sit quietly, listen,… — Jan Marquart Copy Share Image
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“No season lives here. This space has quite successfully shut out any such interference. The cunning designer saw to it that there… — Geoffrey O'Brien Copy Share Image
The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I think a great book—leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on—is a book that describes the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years! — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years. — Nancy Jo Sales Copy Share Image
Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have… — Deb Olin Unferth Copy Share Image
For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I am nowhere near as brave as people believe me to be. As a writer, armed with words, I can do anything,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I've always kept writing. There's never been a moment where I went through a spell where I just don't write. — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“The clientele was good for the mental novel she was writing, anyway—she needed a fictional population and she certainly was exposed to… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
“SARA CREWE OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN'S BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1891 Copyright, 1888, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do. — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you.… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
