Controlled Quote by Sam Lipsyte

“Where do you think my new novel is? In the waste basket. I can see myself that it's no good on earth, and when…

— Jean Webster

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may…

— Laurie Graham

“It may be true that we all have a novel inside of us. Better in than out in the present case. Burning Ashes appears…

— Rodney Ulyate

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as…

— Anonymous

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel…

— Dean Koontz

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

For the book unwritten is the book burned.

— Anonymous

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

— Ann Voskamp

For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

— Claire Messud

“Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too”

— HEINRICH HEINE