Carpentry Quote by William Golding

“But if one wants to be primarily a writer, then, in our society, one is an animal that is tolerated but not encouraged --…

— George Orwell

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Of course, a literary work is a kind of nest: an elaborately and painstakingly woven nest of words incorporating chunks and fragments of the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

— Charles Hartshorne

And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my…

— Julia Cameron

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

— Mary Ruefle

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.

— Archibald MacLeish

I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their…

— Neil Cross

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.

— Laurence Sterne

“Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate…

— Tom Robbins

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez