And there are two types of stories. One type is one's own story. The other type is telling the stories of others.… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What The Mysteries of Udolpho suggests is how a novel, by presenting phenomena before it present resolutions, can create an on-going, perhaps… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Your life is a Book; it may be a volume of larger or smaller size; and conversion is but the title-page or… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
Writing is this odd act, right? To sit and type, or write by hand, or whatever people do. And it requires a… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
“Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. Most likely you will… — The Pocket University - Volume XXIII Copy Share Image
It really helped to have someone whose taste I really trusted who I knew was really smart and a really good writer.… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
“My attic study is full of books, around a thousand of them, of which I might have read a half, the others… — Richard Gwyn Copy Share Image
Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is simply the way it is with writers. It's when they don't see you that you matter. Because then you… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“So you can't please all the people all the time. All you can do is what pleases you, and hope that it… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“When people really are writers, they write. Artists draw. Golfers golf. Fish swim. Can’t keep them from it; it’s who they are.… — David Brisbin Copy Share Image
“Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath… — Laurie Horowitz Copy Share Image
“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“The more you write, the more you find your voice. I think with my earlier stuff, when I was dabbling, it definitely… — Chessela Helm Copy Share Image
In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and… — Susan Stinson Copy Share Image
I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I have a hardcore attitude: a “self-published, ghost-written book” is wrong because the concept behind self publishing is that you have knowledge… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
You can tell a book is real when your heart beats faster. Real books make you sweat. Cry, if no one is… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
When I was young - like, young young - I would read all the time. I would read when I was walking… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
