Authors

"“But you really are, you know.” This was said with intense earnestness. “I mean good, really good. I think it is wonderful to be an author like you. It must be almost like being God.”Graham stared bla…"

"Write to the mind and heart, and let the earGlean after what it can."

"And force them, though it was in spiteOf Nature and their stars, to write."

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling, like dew, upon a thought producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions think."

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. (9 December 1852)"

"And hold up to the sun my little taper."

"Writers collect things. We read magazines, we ride buses and eavesdrop on other people's conversations, we stop and read posters on telephone poles, we examine soup cans and old clothing stores and ba…"

"I like the idea of a literary patchwork, novel by novel, poem by poem, by different writers, mapping out an era, 'a continent' more and more thoroughly. No one writer can do it."