“As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but my goal is to make you almost live the books. I want you to fall through that page and feel as if these things are happening to you.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsBookFallGoalAchievePagesHappeningsI Want You Author:George R. R. Martin
“The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoBookEndsValuesTurnsAchieveHavensPagesGood Values Author:Terry Pratchett
“If an idea seems to find its way towards a stage setting, that's the direction I take. I don't know if I'm trying to achieve anything other than to follow an idea on to the page.” IfsKnowsWayTryingIdeasSeemsAchieveStagePagesSettingSettings Author:Don DeLillo
“There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.” MenAbleEasySimpleWiseAchieveDisciplinePagesUglyDullRealisingCaptureVulgarTransparentTypographyOstentation Author:Beatrice Warde
“When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer, I don't want people spending time thinking, "What does she mean?" I want, in a way, my text to go away. So that the words on the page become a door to one's own internal investigation. It's just a passage. If the work does its job, it just opens.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantMeanDoeJobsMovingDoorsAchievePagesSpendingInternalsGoing AwayPassagesInvestigationTransparentSpending Time Author:Claudia Rankine
“I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time in my life, my belief in man as an individual and independent entity. Certainly not independence in the everyday sense of the word, but pertaining to a freedom and mobility of thought that few people are able - or even have the courage - to achieve.” PeopleMenFirstsMeanStatesAbleIndividualBeliefAchievePagesFirst TimeIndependentIndependenceEverydayEntitySincerelyMobilityCredo Book:Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.” IfsArtRealSelfRealityTurnsResponsibilityVisionNovelAchieveReaderPagesIllusionCapacityLonelyPracticalsImpressionReceivingSensitivityObservingDistortionAssignments Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
“The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.” HandsGreaterAchievePagesBonesFleshImmortalityPensGreater Power Author:Laurie R. King