Books Quote by Ciaran Carson

“With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.”

— Roberto Bolano

“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind…

— Flannery O'Connor

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside the conscious…

— K.M. Weiland

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“While I do see lots of repetitious writing among authors, that does not apply to all, and certainly not to me. Average minds think…

— Calvin W. Allison

“Sometimes a writer is inspired by the moment, more often they are prepared.”

— Loron-Jon Stokes

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

“There is beauty in each word of a Book; as once it was just a mere thought in the authors head!”

— Mrudula G B

“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan