Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
You know, if you read a book, once you get to chapter five and stuff starts stepping up, it doesn't mean chapters… — Tyson Kidd Copy Share Image
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“I still believe in you, as a writer, but the only stuff we ever had in common doesn't travel very far." "What… — John Irving (Author Copy Share Image
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“In general, I start with an idea and a general gist of how I want the story to end, and I let… — Kristi Cramer Copy Share Image
When I was writing the memoir, every page was a battle with myself because I knew I had to tell the truth.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“Writer's block comes from the feeling that one is doing the wrong thing or doing the right thing badly. Fiction written for… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“In my case, if I start out by thinking about the plot, things don't go well. Small points, such as my impression… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
“And to love such a librarian requires a surrendering to her eccentricities, a bowing to her pathological quietness, an obeisance to a… — Jesse Giles Christiansen Copy Share Image
There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Voices have been, and always will be, too afraid to speak with as much volume as a book. That’s why writers write—to… — Tarryn Fisher - Mud Vein Copy Share Image
“Who hath a book Hath friends at hand, And gold and gear At his command; And rich estates, If he but look,… — Wilbur D. Nesbit Copy Share Image
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Never give up. The same manuscript may appeal to one agent and not to another. It's a matter of taste, and it's… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Anyway, back to the crush. Sorry to shift gears so fast, but we both know why we're here. I mean, if I… — Lani Diane Rich Copy Share Image
Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You're a witness. You're always standing around watching what's happening, scribbling in your book what other people do. You have to get… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet,… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“Wait, that’s your idea? That’s your expert advice? You’re going to tell these novelists to just keep going? You’re going to tell… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I tried to get people at 'South Park' into 'Downton Abbey,' and it didn't work. I think they were like, 'Downton Abbey?'… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
