After the selection of quotes on reading and books, it seems appropriate to list a few words from the other side of the book, the side of the writer…

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Ray Bradbury

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Lord Byron

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Elias Canetti

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov

Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

T.S. Eliot

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. Ralph Waldo Emerson

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

Juvenal

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Franz Kafka

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Sinclair Lewis

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

Blaise Pascal

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth

My hope is that some of these words might interest you to find out more about who wrote them. Obviously a quote can not tell us much about a person, but it can be a little window to things we might have never discovered otherwise.

and since this isn't a very specific post, i'll use it for this link to a selection of book blogs chosen by "the Guardian":

http://books.guardian.co.uk/links/areas_of_interest/general/links/0,6135,1406190,00.html