Experiments Quote by Graham Joyce

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

— Diana Athill

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think real novelists…

— George Saunders

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

— Ernest Lehman

A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid…

— M. John Harrison

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a…

— Will Self

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt

“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not so... You…

— Stephen King

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser