Altars Quote by Bonnie Friedman

You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.

— Martin Amis

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form...

— Martin Buber

“Read a book, words by words, to find a story within and be amazed. Your heart will make that poor written book into a…

— Adam Aksara

For the book unwritten is the book burned.

— Anonymous

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

— Charles Wright

“Each reader is but one chapter in the life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it is as…

— Alberto Manguel

“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try…

— Pat Conroy

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.…

— Annie Dillard

“Burn the book. It serves you once. Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime. Lend the book. It serves for generations to come.”

— Kowtham Kumar K

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a…

— Matthew Specktor

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald