Book Quote by Chelsea M. Cameron

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back…

— Edmund White

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

“A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap…

— Tad Williams

“The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.”

— Toba Beta

“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

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“When we as writers take our fears, beliefs, imaginations, and research and offer them up for the Lord to use, we are changed, and…

— Amy Wallace

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

— Kinky Friedman

“The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human…

— James K. Morrow

“words, literature, are not in the consciousness of the person who writes but in his fingers and the paper and the typewriter, just like…

— Antonio Muxf1oz Molina