Beautiful Quote by Paul Bowles

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

— Akhil Sharma

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure…

— Virginia Woolf

When you get the ideas, that's a thrill; when you're writing the book and it's corning out well, that's a thrill; when you finish…

— Robert Cormier

In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and…

— Janet Burroway

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it…

— Rita Dove

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt

I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about…

— Steven Heighton

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the…

— Helene Hanff