I am so excited to announce that I have written a book. I have actually written it myself with no ghost writer,… — Rob Beckett Copy Share Image
Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything. — Henry James Copy Share Image
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The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
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I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chapter a day' and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
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Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
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