It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things to happen. You... →
Jonathan Dee
When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It... →
Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social situations, we... →
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
Carmen Agra Deedy
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
Len Deighton
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go... →
Rob Delaney
'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as much into it as I could at the time.
Samuel R. Delany
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're... →
One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things... →