What seems beautiful to me, what I should most like to do, would be a book about nothing, a book without any exterior ties, but sustained by the internal force of its style . . . a book which would have almost no subject, or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible, if that is possible. The most beautiful works are those with least matter. Wrote Flaubert.

Matt Bucher • The Belan Deck

I want to do is write serious, complicated, difficult things in a very easy style that is fluid and comfortable to read.

Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the universe, which runs through himself and all things.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami

Austin Kleon • 100 quotes that helped me write