Form Quote by Nicholson Baker

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

— Raymond Carver

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt…

— Cyril Connolly

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

— Henry Rollins

“To stomach the world for any prolonged length of time, one must either remain a child or become more than a man”

— Michael Lieber

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with…

— Teju Cole

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she…

— John Irving

You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback…

— Charles Jencks

Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of…

— Tom Vanderbilt

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative…

— Richard Dawkins

“This book is also not about denial. None of the methods you’ll read about here involve denying whatever health condition you may presently have.…

— Joe Dispenza

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

— Anonymous