Enthusiasm Quote by Francis Picabia

“Wisdom, ambition, sadness, joy, malice, grief, amazement, all the emotions which blaze within the human soul may be recorded on a page. Nestled in…

— Tanigawa Nagaru

A page of good prose remains invincible.

— John Cheever

“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity in the…

— Tristan Tzara

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

— Nicholas A. Basbanes

“The brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility…

— Miguel Syjuco

“Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the…

— T.J. Mihaila

“The sneaky heftiness of the book being the aggregate cumulative effect of hundreds of thousands of individually insubstantial little markings, letters and numbers, commas…

— Charles Yu

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

— El Lissitzky

“No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or book. Whether…

— Beth Mende Conny

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

— Megan Chance

“Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.”

— Jonah Winter