Crafts Quote by John L'Heureux

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

— Nicolas Chamfort

I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention…

— Sarah Vowell

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer…

— Rachel Kushner

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”

— Franklin P. Adams

“I am a being compromised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”

— Tahereh Mafi

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm…

— Jonathan Franzen

C’est moi, c’est moi,’tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn’t know if he’d catch the reference. I shouldn’t have…

— Patricia Briggs

“In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.”

— Anne Rice

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

— George Eliot

“[...] please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: ( ( ( ( ) ) ) ).”

— J.D. Salinger

I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when I'm writing,…

— Sheila Heti

“The writers we love often serve us through their comfort and example without their ever knowing it, and in this sense, they're as imaginary…

— Patricio Pron