Writer Quotes · Page 111

“Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“. . . everywhere a good and a bad book”

— Thomas Carlyl

“If no book fits u it is the right book!!!”

— Diana Zimmerman

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

— Edward Albee

I spend about a year between novels

— Anne Tyler

“Fiction is hardly ever fiction.”

— Cyma Rizwaan Khan

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

— Anonymous

“Writing is a closed pistachio shell.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent.

— Gillian Flynn

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,

— T. E. Lawrence

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

— Carl Deuker

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

— Anonymous

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

— Anthony Horowitz

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

— Mark Twain

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

— David James Duncan

If ii Wrote About Were We Stand , The Title Of My Book Would Be

— Anonymous

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through.…

— John Updike

I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to…

— John Lithgow

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the…

— Michael Lewis

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but…

— Tony Dungy

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and…

— Pat Barker

“But, Erin. If you are trying to make a writing career for yourself, you will get rejected again and again and again.…

— Jennifer Echols

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your…

— Neil Gaiman

“No matter how much a man may study, reflect and meditate on all the books in the world, he is nothing more…

— Denis Diderot

“The Hurt Artist is a riveting memoir by Shane Niemeyer that takes us on a raw, unedited life journey that includes the…

— Jason Peter

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write.…

— Eric Brown

“I am often asked by editors, fans, friends about what I read or which authors influence my writing. My answer seems surprising…

— Soar Soaring-Words.com

Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke…

— Ted Solotaroff

“The novel, then, provides a reduction of the world different from that of the treatise. It has to lie. Words, thoughts, patterns…

— Frank Kermode

“And yes, I confess, when I looked at him, I thought of Heathcliff and Mr Rochester and Maxim de Winter... and how…

— Justine Picardie

“Novels, says Sartre, are not life, but they owe our power upon us, as upon himself as an infant, to the fact…

— Frank Kermode

If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then…

— George Saunders

“A famous author is a promoter who never quit.”

— Kristin James

“I'm a song writer, professional dreamer...”

— Don Williams

My first book was the book that changed my life.

— Stephen Ambrose

With enough libraries, all content is free.

— Jessamyn West

It's not an idea until you write it down.

— Ivan Sutherland

In Literature, only trouble is interesting.

— Janet Burroway

“My books are my confessions.”

— Clive Barker

The important thing is that you 'read!'

— Lara Dutta