“I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“A school without a library is like a first aid box without medicines". Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka - 2017” — Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this… — Mike White Copy Share Image
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic.… — Airambooksie Copy Share Image
“do NOT go pulling things you like out of your novel because some forum person told you your idea "won't sell.” — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“If you’ve ever wondered what we’re missing by sitting at computers in cubicles all day, follow Jessica DuLong when she loses her… — Trevor Corson Copy Share Image
“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I can tell you that when Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, our writer, when she would work on some of these grander novels like,… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did. — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Is not a book of more value than metal?’ asked Cumscrad. ‘It is the fruit of a person’s brain and contains knowledge… — Peter Tremayne Copy Share Image
“Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture… — common Copy Share Image
In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back to the 'romance' of my high-school… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book.… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
“A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.” — A.N.L. Munby Copy Share Image
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
've had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas.… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
