Books Quote by Jaclyn Moriarty

“At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. Rather they became a…

— Thomas Hardy

“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and…

— Erica Bauermeister

“Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for the sheer…

— Vanessa Wu

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing…

— Richard Paul Evans

“A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. if you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in first.…

— Ann M. Noser

“The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary'…

— Ray Bradbury

“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your…

— Valerie Sherwood

“*The story,* I like to say and remember, *is always smarter than you* - there will be patterns of theme, image,e and idea that…

— Tin House Books

“Genius writers write simple, Garbage writers write fancy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all…

— Samuel Johnson

The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them;…

— Samuel Johnson