Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole. — John Irving Copy Share Image
My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“I love the echoes of a home filled to the rim with poetry, books and art.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere,… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone… — Kathleen Edwards Copy Share Image
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there… — Robert Alter Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
“To daughter Scotty Oct. 20, 1936 p. 313 Don't be a bit discouraged about your story not being tops. At the same… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" "Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead… — Dorothy Sayers Copy Share Image
“Is writing the gift of curling up, of curling up with reality? One would so love to curl up, of course, but… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
