Book Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no…

— Ezra Pound

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

— Louise Rosenblatt

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

— Max Barry

“As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the…

— Alberto Manguel

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

— Robin Hobb

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in…

— Edmond Jabes

“When one starts a new chapter, the page shouldn’t be messy with commentary but white and crisp, ready for one’s best self.”

— Nadine Bjursten

Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go…

— Barbara Mertz

I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across…

— Diana Vreeland

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.

— Tom Hiddleston

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking…

— Rick Yancey

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

— Ben Kingsley