In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
You're everything I thought you never were And nothing like about you could've been. — Beyoncé Copy Share Image
“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“He had a book to finish. Ten-thousand words. The other ninety thousand had been difficult. This last tenth seemed impossible. His plot… — Garry Kilworth Copy Share Image
“Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got a wheelbarrow,… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
“I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstep How did we go from nonchalant conversation me… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
