Book Quote by Elmore Leonard

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

— Elmore Leonard

I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.

— Adrian Tomine

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

— Ronald Everett Capps

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

When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to…

— Frank Peretti

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

— W. Somerset Maugham

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

— Marcus Aurelius

It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from…

— Lev Grossman

From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood.

— C.P. Cavafy

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

— Joel Stein

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any…

— Tom Robbins

Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly vague but…

— Mary-Louise Parker