The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Vladimir NabokovTags: reading books writing reader author
Determine the result you desire..law of averages does not know the objective untill the decision is made. Once a decision is made, the law of averages goes into operation.
Earl PrevetteTags: author
I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: books writing book flowers awareness author bloom complete finished slaughterhouse-five
What an author doesn't know could fill a book.
Holly BlackThe real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
Virginia WoolfThe stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.
Alberto ManguelTags: writer author study shelves desk
There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.
Pamela RibonI used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.
Tara Bray SmithTags: reader author pen marginalia
Give a poet a pen
A. Jarrell HayesTags: humor life inspirational arts poetry writing poem culture author liberal-arts
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
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