Books Quote by Raymond Carver

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

“Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for…

— Jamie L. Harding

Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and…

— Nicola Griffith

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

— Sophie Kinsella

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little…

— Joe Hill

“Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.”

— Amaya Ellman

“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time…

— Elif Batuman

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences…

— Mohsin Hamid

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich