Awareness Quote by Thomas Perry

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you…

— Julia Alvarez

Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish…

— Ruskin Bond

“As social concerns override literary ones, writers seem fated to eschew virtuosity and experimentation in favor of a bland but immediately accessible style. Writing…

— Nicholas Carr

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at…

— Raymond Chandler

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do…

— Nathalie Sarraute

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws…

— Bill Barich

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that what is…

— Alice McDermott

“written works do not produce fast reactions as pictures and sculptures and music do. it takes no effort to see or hear. but to…

— Anneli Rufus

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

— Elizabeth George

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene