+ The images of things are not the things in themselves. Feraz Zeid, June 13, 2023December 12, 2023, E.L. Doctorow, God, 0 - E.L. Doctorow Author · USA
+ A novelist is a person who lives in other people’s skins. Feraz Zeid, July 25, 2023December 12, 2023, E.L. Doctorow, Skins, Writing, 0 - E.L. Doctorow Author · USA
+ The act of composition is a series of discoveries. Feraz Zeid, September 15, 2023December 24, 2023, E.L. Doctorow, Composition, Discovery, Writing, 0 - E.L. Doctorow Author · USA
+ Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne. Feraz Zeid, July 10, 2023December 12, 2023, E.L. Doctorow, Stories, Suffering, 0 - E.L. Doctorow Author · USA
+ Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially. Feraz Zeid, September 13, 2023December 26, 2023, E.L. Doctorow, Difficulty, Form, Writing, 0 - E.L. Doctorow Author · USA
+ A book begins as a private excitement of the mind. Feraz Zeid, October 16, 2023December 26, 2023, E.L. Doctorow, Book, Excitement, Mind, 0 - E.L. Doctorow Author · USA
+ I worry about images. Images are what things mean. Feraz Zeid, July 24, 2023December 12, 2023, E.L. Doctorow, Worry, 0 - E.L. Doctorow Author · USA
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA
