Art Quote by Therese Anne Fowler

It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so…

— Joy Harjo

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always…

— Anthony Trollope

“What you produce as a writer is art. A voice that opens a vein and leaves the reader lapping at the blood that’s been…

— H.N. Sieverding

No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art…

— David Hockney

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

— Cyril Connolly

“A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.”

— Christy Leigh Stewart

The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for…

— Andre Alexis

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

— Karen Armstrong

Intrigue is so much more effective. I don't like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with art -…

— Rupert Friend

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere