Books Quote by Gary Lutz Download Open image “The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.” — Gary Lutz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Writing
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
“One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“Because some days the world holds true at the drop of a hat, don't you find? Things favor themselves: whatever you reach for -… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“Most days what I felt was this: the minute you put a first name and a last name together, you've got a pair of… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at you with… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions.” — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
There's much too much mismating in the Microsofted phrasery of our day. And I like sentences that are societies unto themselves and shun any… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
