Bounds Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden…

— John Hersey

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in…

— Norman Spinrad

“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

The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his reader, who…

— George Saunders

“This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense practitioner of uncertainty who spent his professional life trying to resist being fooled…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

— Vita Sackville-West

“... we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the…

— Umberto Eco

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

— Annie Dillard

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

— Anonymous