Books Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers…

— Lang Leav

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

— Winifred Holtby

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery”

— Cristina Istrati

“Because—and don’t let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.”

— Richard Russo

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume…

— Ernest Hemingway