Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find… — Dominique Browning Copy Share Image
Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place,… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share Image
As a digital creator, there's been so much pressure to write a book because so many of my peers have done it.… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my… — Ruggero Leoncavallo Copy Share Image
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
“Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don’t worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I write when I can. I have no set writing practices, or times, or methods. I write when I'm not doing other… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
“The endless piles of genre fiction are the key to happiness. They’re the key to picking out the things that actually make… — Steven Lloyd Wilson Copy Share Image
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish;… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Normal People' not knowing that anyone would read it, not knowing that anyone would read the first book, so… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For me, writing in public is actually super energizing and so much fun. Especially when writing can typically be really painful and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from,… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
“To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a question… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed… — Samantha Dunn Copy Share Image
The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It's a weird thing, writing. Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
You have days where you're trying to be your best, and you say something, and you see it being written in three… — Abby Huntsman Copy Share Image
A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“There are three elements of good writing: Effect, Eloquence, and Affect. One because economic use of words makes reading easy, another because… — Stephen Hagelin Copy Share Image
“Do not sag with exhaustion. There is no mandate; only opportunity. Our culture fosters inattention; we are all creatures of that culture.… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
“spending time in reading something you want to read is wayyyyy better than wasting time in reading something you should read but… — Shohana Akter Copy Share Image
We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“I only believe in the easy things, like red lipstick and coffee before noon and writing essays in pen. I make my… — Kristina Haynes Copy Share Image
