My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product.… — Kevin Henkes Copy Share Image
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I could never really decide what I wanted to be when I grew up, and for a while, I thought that maybe… — Christina Tosi Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through… — Larry Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a fashion writer but didn't want to contribute to the over-saturated market unless I could contribute… — Leandra Medine Copy Share Image
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be… — David Almond Copy Share Image
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“The books are hard. But the more she asked, the more the children gave. And, though they never saw her, there were… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“What shall I do with all my books?' was the question, and the answer, 'Read them,' sobered the questioner. But if you… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“E. L. Doctorow quote that I believe, too: “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can see only as… — Paula Treick DeBoard Copy Share Image
“Two kinds of writers. Those who think this life is all there is, and want to describe everything: the fall, the battle,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
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First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I was reading some Raymond Carver. I really liked how he did that 'slice of life' thing. Because I'm not much of… — Limmy Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
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[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage. — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard. — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
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When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle,… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
“Yeah, that’s exactly how much I read. It was a form of escapism. It was George R.R. Martin who said, ‘a reader… — Evangelene Copy Share Image
I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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