Blunders Quote by E. M. Forster

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task -…

— Anonymous

“A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.”

— Jeanette Winterson

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

— Maxwell Perkins

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Time is a watchful adversary, who waits enduringly for that merciless hour, hurrying to work the hands of separation.”

— Kelly Vang

“Time could only be seen in the falling leaves, a wound that healed, a woodworm's tunneling, rust that spread, and hearts that grew weary.…

— Félix J. Palma

It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of…

— Laura van den Berg

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

— William Hogarth

“Time is like a river. You can't touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. It is…

— Timi Nadela

“The time is the time; reasonable time, I think, we have enough...Solely, the hand of the clock is annoying - because ,he, wipes the…

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail for a…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Time has a way of stripping everything that is apparent about a thing away, leaving the Perception of a thing unrecognizable. But in the…

— Vivian Marie Feggans