Samuel Johnson: Reading and making of a book
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” —Samuel Johnson
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Eudora Welty: Taking Life as it Exists
“The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain …
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John Updike: Of Heroes and Kings
“We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings. … Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make …
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John Updike: We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings
“We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings. … Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make …
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