If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I write because it’s a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don’t understand. The act of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Woman I was up at 5.30 this morning Writing Making breakfast Filling the dishwasher Watching Columbo - of course! Making packed lunch… — Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell Copy Share Image
Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
“It seemed quite logical to the Librarian that, since there were aisles where the shelves were on the outside then there should… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember,… — Rossandra White Copy Share Image
As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
I definitely would love to transition into being more of a writer at some point in my career. I love playing shows… — Ben Rector Copy Share Image
Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing… — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Books. I am attracted and repelled; books are conversations that are not addressed to me and I want to sneak up and… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
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Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth… — Bonnie Baker Copy Share Image
There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
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I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing.… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
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Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel.… — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
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“The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
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