Never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things—childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves—that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers.
Salman Rushdie
Quotes
Your art is stunted when you’re trying to pretend to be something you aren’t.
Lena Waithe
Your art is stunted
A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.
Lorrie Moore
A novel is a daily labor
Ideas are just like wild horses—blink once and they’re gone!
Lindsay Bonilla
Ideas are just like
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
Donna Tartt