Writer Quotes · Page 139

“Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

— Nora Ephron

“Escape to Read and Read to Escape!”

— Maggie Thom

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

— Chris Cleave

“Because music is the heart’s greatest librarian.”

— Kate Stewart

“Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.”

— Henry Stevens

I love telling people's stories.

— Elizabeth Vargas

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

— Anton Chekhov

I don't know how to write a children's book.

— Maurice Sendak

“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.”

— Neil Gaiman

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

— Adrienne Rich

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

— Paulo Coelho

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

— Wole Soyinka

In a book, you can kind of take time and have lulls in places.

— Wes Ball

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

— Lisa Morton

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

— Oscar Wilde

“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. [ Inside Out (VH1)]”

— Warren Zevon

“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.”

— Sanhita Baruah

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases…

— Anatole France

It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police…

— N. K. Jemisin

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

— Jacqueline Woodson

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and…

— Francois Fenelon

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent,…

— Danielle Steel

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

— Elizabeth Strout

We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong…

— Danny Carey

Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance…

— Michael Chabon

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when…

— Jonathan Ames

“Read a book, words by words, to find a story within and be amazed. Your heart will make that poor written book…

— Adam Aksara

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them…

— Dorothy Parker

“Oh but to write what you think is so amazing- whoosh, whoosh, you don't even know how you're doing it and suddenly…

— Nescio

“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always…

— Julian Barnes

I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for…

— Jeff Kinney

When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is…

— Rumaan Alam

No two people read the same book.

— Edmund Wilson

All writing is a process of elimination.

— Martha Albrand

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

— Irvine Welsh

I chase after inspiring stories.

— Vera Farmiga

I can only write from a man's viewpoint.

— Duff McKagan

“Books are so much more reliable than people.”

— Amy Cross

“A good reader has the power to move the world.”

— Aman Jassal

“Better watch her. She burns other people's books.”

— Tsukumizu