Writer Quotes · Page 163

“I live in two worlds. One is a world of books.”

— Rory Gilmore

I've always written down how I feel.

— Adele

“Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.”

— Stephanie Connolly

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

— Randy Newman

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

— Joan Rivers

“If you wish to renew your mind, read.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The man who never reads lives only one.

— George R. R. Martin

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

— Johanna Lindsey

“I hide away in my room to see Just what stories will come to me.”

— P.B. McIlrath

From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing - from these alone will I be understood.

— C.P. Cavafy

“There’s just something about reading a story that makes me happier than anything else in the world.”

— Vanessa Booke

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

— Giovannino Guareschi

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

— Norman Mailer

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

— Al Alvarez

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

— Anne Lamott

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

— Fernando Pessoa

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

— Karl Kraus

“Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked…

— Chila Woychik

“The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I…

— Mike Mullin

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

— Richard de Bury

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is…

— William H. Gass

I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.'

— Luis Alberto Urrea

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never…

— Orson Scott Card

I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us…

— Doris Lessing

If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be…

— William Morris

I am a morning person and start work, whether composing, rehearsing, preparing syllabi/tests, or proofing an article or manuscript, early in the…

— Barbara Harbach

I find that I do my best work at the beginning of the day, but I'm rarely in a writing mood when…

— Nick Petrie

I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time,…

— William Brinkley

“I love a lots of things about being a writer! The thrill of seeing characters come to life, and the satisfaction as…

— Jessica Hart

I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will…

— Robert Dessaix

“When a person reaches the end of a book and says, 'I want to read that again,' what he's actually saying is…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly…

— Azar Nafisi

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

— Isaac Pitman

“The worst thief is a bad book”

— Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason

Why by a book when you can join a library.

— Ricky Gervais

I learned to write by writing.

— Neil Gaiman

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

— Richard Peck

Reading is power. Reading is life.

— Karin Slaughter

“ALL WRITERS ARE READERS, BUT NOT IN REVERSE.”

— DDSherman

This book is to be read in bed.

— Dr. Seuss