Books Quote by Elmore Leonard

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather…

— Elmore Leonard

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

— Edith Pearlman

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too…

— Mary Oliver

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

— Diana Athill

It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

— Ann Voskamp

I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly…

— Neel Mukherjee

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

“See what is invisible and you will see what to write”

— Ronald Everett Capps

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should…

— Abi Morgan

People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that's a misunderstanding. It's about showing what invisibility looks like.

— Trevor Paglen

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the…

— Jack Vance

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

— Elizabeth Berg