A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
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I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
As a writer, I never want to have an author's message. I really want to present a situation with it in as… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
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Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I never considered myself a writer. I'm a teacher. In a way, I feel kind of... kind of guilty for all the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The manufacturers of mechanical typewriters believed that they had developed sufficiently when they introduced electric typewriters. Then came the PC, and the… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
“One must be prepared to fight for one’s simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I think the secret to success is a short-term outlook. So for example, I'm writing the next Killing book now and I… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Writing is the way I make sense of a chaotic world. I see the tumultuous backdrop of humanity around me, and I… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Writing! There's nothing like it! Well, you would know! You sit down in a corner. By yourself. With a sheet of paper… — David Burke Copy Share Image
“I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I write constantly, so it flows from one project to the next, and I would edit everything endlessly if I had the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“All I knew was what I wasn’t, and it took me some years to discover what I was. Which was a writer.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
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