Doe Quote by Piers Anthony

All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing — grinding, buffing, and polishing — not writing.”

— Guy Kawasaki

about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at the desk…

— Andre Dubus

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human experience, when…

— Tom Waits

“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld abstract ideas…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

— Rita Dove

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava

When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing…

— Howard Jacobson

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for…

— Evelyn Waugh

“WHy bother to write if it isn't disturbing, banal, beautiful, hardcore, cutting edge and savage, and melts a readers mind because they see something…

— Jane Brooke