Author Archives: Rob Bignell

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him toContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Winston S. Churchill”

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another. The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, whereContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Rebecca Solnit”

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it. …Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn’t the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn’t there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? I decided that adventure was theContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Lloyd Alexander”

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. …when a sentence isContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White”

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle. As it happens, I am still committed to theContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author Joan Didion”