Form Quote by W. G. Sebald

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

— Paul Ricoeur

Form ossifies into genre through repetition.

— Rumaan Alam

I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need…

— Chris Abani

Out of limitations, new forms emerge

— Georges Braque

The form is the possibility of the structure.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A writer must experiment with genres. Otherwise, it is a restriction on the craft.

— Ravi Subramanian

I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas…

— Chris Abani

A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid…

— M. John Harrison

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

— William Faulkner

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you…

— Colum McCann

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

— Ernest Hemingway

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

— Don DeLillo