Being real Quote by Jonathan Lethem

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

— Salman Rushdie

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The stitch of a book is its words.

— Rumer Godden

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their…

— Yann Martel

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten…

— Joan Didion

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking…

— Rick Yancey

I make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible.

— Morgan Saylor

I love books, letters and texts visually as objects, and textually, for their content. The same book I write serves a different purpose when…

— Jill Magid

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

— Paul Auster

It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say…

— Samuel R. Delany

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

— Yoko Ono