Books Quote by Rita Moreno

Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us…

— Janet Fitch

The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept,…

— Atul Gawande

I love books, letters and texts visually as objects, and textually, for their content. The same book I write serves a different purpose when…

— Jill Magid

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

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the…

— Jasper Fforde

I even love the smell of books.

— Adriana Trigiani

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of…

— George Gissing

“Books always had such a wonderful smell. Everywhere in the world. There was always something familiar about that. Something constant. I took a moment…

— Sarah Kleck

He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was…

— Gustave Flaubert

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.…

— Shelby Steele