Creativity Quote by Yann Martel

Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes…

— Ivan Klíma

“What happens if the writer is good is usually not that the work seems derivative or trivial but just the opposite: the work actually…

— Thomas C. Foster

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries.…

— Henry Miller

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing…

— Carl Hiaasen

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey

What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons…

— Anonymous

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the…

— Tara Bray Smith

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

“Every book tells a different story to the person who reads it. How they perceive that book will depend on who they are. A…

— Charles de Lint

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly

— Jen Knox

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day