Books Quote by Gary Lutz

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Each servant stamps the reader with a look.

— John Ashbery

Reader look, not on his picture but his book.

— Ben Jonson

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

— Gale Anne Hurd

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

— Wole Soyinka

The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for…

— Andre Alexis

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up…

— Laura Miller

“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

— William Zinsser

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

— Sarah Vowell

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make…

— Brian Evenson

“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must…

— David Brin