Books Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“A writer must get beyond the thrill of a byline, plunge deeper than the words themselves, and dive head-on into a bottomless pit where…

— Kathleen M. Rodgers

“The aspiration of all writers should be to avoid leaving fissures in their work, to make sure that everything is properly secured so readers…

— Marcos Giralt Torrente

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of…

— John Burnside

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

— Juvenal

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Writing is about bringing words together to fullfill a purpose!!”

— Angela Y. Hodge

“Decades ago, Rudolph Flesch discovered that readers were not just attracted to words, but to the breathing room between sentences and paragraphs. Long sentences…

— Harry Beckwith