Air Quote by Gustave Flaubert

What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would…

— Gustave Flaubert

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no…

— Sheri S. Tepper

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.

— Meg Rosoff

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To…

— Marguerite Duras

If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it.

— Shel Silverstein

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

— R. D. Laing

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I…

— Thomas Traherne

Books which are no books.

— Charles Lamb

“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to…

— Dani Shapiro

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

— Sara Sheridan