Art Quote by Novalis

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles…

— Carl Sagan

Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities…

— Ken Liu

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most…

— Sara Sheridan

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's…

— George Carlin

People do write books.

— Kevin Pietersen

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the…

— Terry Eagleton

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort…

— Dan Poynter

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify, and describe…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

— Jasper Fforde

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant