Books Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying…

— Larry Brooks

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

— Tobias Wolff

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

— Tobias Wolff

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.

— Joachim Frank

The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

— Richard Ford

I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Literature is the expression of society.

— Charles Nodier

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be…

— David Karp

I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.

— Nick Hornby

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

— George Henry Lewes