Books Quote by Brenda Shaughnessy

“Writing takes place in an open playing field with limitless possibilities, most of them terrible.”

— Scott Gates

“You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“It’s only literature, I know, but it does something, or at least it says something.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“More books than I could read? Somehow I doubted that.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“In writing, as in life, its not the big words that are the problem its the little minds that read them.”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,…

— Samuel Johnson

“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents- were they the stuff of…

— Julian Barnes

“Sometimes just being able to write only a few hundred words as opposed to a few thousand is just fine. As long as they're…

— Nicholas Trandahl