Books Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

— Eric Hobsbawm

I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my…

— John Steinbeck

Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.

— Harlan Ellison

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

— Sigmund Freud

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too…

— Mary Oliver

“Being a writer is a peculiar sort of a job," Neil Gaiman once observed. "It's always you versus a blank sheet of paper —…

— Jim Denney

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen)…

— Neil Gaiman

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

— Larry Brooks

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

— William Goldman

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

— Anonymous