Books Quote by Marcos Giralt Torrente

“Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they…

— Robert Black

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

— James A. Baldwin

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should…

— Charles Nodier

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if…

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D.

— D Michael Hardy

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

“That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.”

— Bill Watterson