Novelist Quotes and aphorisms about shape E. M. Forster J. Courtney Sullivan Karen Bender ,, Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got thro... Salman Rushdie V. S. Naipaul Andrew O'Hagan Ruth Ozeki Pearl S. Buck William T. Vollmann ,, Once you've finished typing and moving text around and everything else, you have to leave it alone ... Jonathan Franzen