Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“With its reverent silence the Library was as close to a religious experience as anything he had ever encountered. Its domed reading… — J.E Allen Copy Share Image
“If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It… — James Hampton Copy Share Image
I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Books ... were merely nodes in a near-infinite matrix of information that exists in four dimensions, evolving toward the idea of the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst. Ditto con men. Gangsters, gunrunners, bank robbers- adept at crowd control, at collaborating… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing… — Robert Mark Kamen Copy Share Image
Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'.… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Like a lot of us, sometimes I'm preaching to the choir, and sometimes my voice doesn't even get heard at all. Sometimes… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Like writing, publishing is not easy. No endeavor worth pursuing is. Discomfort and fear are easy outs—and ultimately dead ends. They are… — Rossandra White Copy Share Image
There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
“It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The question one asks of the young writer who wants to know if he's got what it takes is this: "Is writing… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I have rarely read a more wonderful book than To Win Her Favor by Tamera Alexander. Rich with historical detail and fully… — Colleen Coble Copy Share Image
“I need fiction, I am an addict. This is not a figure of speech. I don’t quite read a novel a day,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
You really burden the reader if you put things in but, "Oh, it's not interesting, but I'll put it in anyway." Then… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
“Almost immediately, I found the red door into the library. I opened it idly- and the breath stopped in my throat. It… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“I continued working without a break, but in the middle of the third story...I felt myself tiring more than if I had… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
“You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“The library serves as a gathering place for friends who share the love of books. It further serves as a resource for… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I… — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
“I am developing new coping mechanisms for lost words and lost negatives, as here for instance: compensate by describing the episode instead.… — Moyra Davey Copy Share Image
“... They are to be stacked like logs, or thrown on a pyre, in the center of Paris,' Michelangelo explained. 'And they… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
As writers and readers, we're drawn to conflict. It's that ancient theory of plot that's written on the whiteboard during every fiction… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
“There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development.… — Krashen Stephen D Copy Share Image
If readers like The Thorn and the Blossom, which I would call literary fantasy, I think they would like books such as… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Overnight, the city managed to procure thousands of cardboard boxes, fifteen hundred hard hats, a few thousand rolls of packing tape, and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
