With 'Broken Harbour,' a third of the way through, I worked it out and had to go back and bloody rewrite. — Tana French Copy Share Image
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very… — Florence King Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Did you… need something?” he asked in a tight voice. I swallowed hard, my mind racing with a million things to say.… — Mari Mancusi Copy Share Image
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“The central theme of Anna Karenina," he said, "is that a rural life of moral simplicity, despite its monotony, is the preferable… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“As simple an act as reading or writing a sentence must be surrounded by perceptory nap and weave . . . an… — David Brin Copy Share Image
For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day… — O.R. Melling Copy Share Image
My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure… — Matt Wagner Copy Share Image
“I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work—and each… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“One of the best perks of being a writer is having a safe place to park all the crazy crap residing in… — Coo Sweet Copy Share Image
There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it. — Romulus Linney Copy Share Image
“I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Secret to writing a bestseller: You write. You stop dreaming of writing. You stop talking about writing. Stop wishing you were writing.… — Jonathan Gunson Copy Share Image
My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life. — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what… — Linda Conrad Copy Share Image
“Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest… — Casey Carter Copy Share Image
You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues.… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Sparrow Hill Road' is a stand-alone book that ties into the InCryptid universe, not the launching point for a whole new series. — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Smash market vs. mass market: Indie authors delve deep into expressive vertical genres. Book stores hold 90-day-credit-return literature. Why wait? In five… — Peter Prasad Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel. You can guess what will happen on the next chapter, but you will not know until youre… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
