Books Quote by Edward Gibbon

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

— Carl Hart

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries.…

— Henry Miller

“the surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definite, and concrete. The greatest writers—Homer, Dante, Shakespeare—are…

— Robert W. Bly

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience…

— Martin Amis

“[N]o such thing as objective writing, . . . every inscription, every traveler's tale, every news account, every piece of technical writing, tells more…

— Sue Hubbell

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

“The way a writer has to grapple with understanding and expressing issues is so exacting that this hobby soon sharpens thought processes, refining the…

— Johnson C. Philip

“When a writer has chosen a topic, he or she has really chosen numerous topics.”

— Kelly Gallagher

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun…

— Susan Orlean

“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray