Writer Quotes · Page 138

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

— Frederick The Great

I'm a writer first and a singer second.

— Lana Del Rey

“A room without books makes book-lovers shudder”

— Cicero Tabitha

“Life is a book waiting to happen.”

— Sloan McBride

I spend a lot of time reading.

— Bill Gates

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291).

— Christopher Paolini

I need to write to be happy.

— Nora Roberts

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”

— Charles Lamb

“A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.”

— Sean Wilsey

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

— Patrick Kavanagh

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

— Anonymous

“If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with.”

— James Cambias

I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

— Vladimir Putin

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

— George Bernard Shaw

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

— Ian Rankin

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

— Vartan Gregorian

I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new…

— Luisa Valenzuela

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

— Anonymous

I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life…

— Jillian Medoff

I cannot go on… All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen…

— Thomas Aquinas

I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving…

— Sandra Cisneros

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who…

— Sara Sheridan

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and…

— Herman Melville

“But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of…

— Joanna Scott

“Top 3 favorite books? I love finding really great children’s books. My daughter was given "Pickle Chiffon Pie" which is so fantastic.…

— Abbie Schiller

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the…

— Joan Didion

“If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars…

— Paul Collins

I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a…

— William Wegman

I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something…

— Susan Sontag

“This book is like any other book. But I would be happy if it were only read by people whose souls are…

— Clarice Lispector

Good books are for consideration after, too.

— Stephen King

Dude, I gave you a pen, not a chew toy!

— Anonymous

I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book.

— Miranda July

Don't think and then write it down. Think on paper.

— Harry Kemelman

“Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion”

— Tawny Lara

“I don't write stories, I write characters.”

— Bhavya Kaushik

“Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.”

— Sara Sheridan

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

— Jonathan Franzen