Writer Quotes · Page 166

“Give your brain a break and read a book.”

— Jeff Lyon

I like the compressed nature of the story telling.

— Brad Hall

“Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.”

— A.D. Posey

I like to read a good book.

— Serge Gnabry

Books are important. They help you sleep at night.

— Laura Bush

“I like things to be story-shaped.”

— Neil Gaiman

I am really just writing about real life.

— Klayton

In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.

— George Stephen

As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.

— Marlon James

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

— Michael Moore

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

— Julie Foudy

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

— Ben Okri

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

“If writing doesn't come from the heart, the time spent was a waste”

— Dustin Adrian Rhodes

“It is amazing just how many books in the library have words written in them!?”

— Jon Hodge

“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”

— S. Kelley Harrell

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

— Dan Brown

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building…

— Robertson Davies

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

— Anne Rivers Siddons

All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox…

— Julia Leigh

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection…

— Marianne Williamson

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live…

— Moss Hart

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and…

— Lisa Scottoline

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway

“She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her…

— robert m drake

No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations…

— H. P. Lovecraft

When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time... Of course it's not remotely like seeing…

— Colm Toibin

Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the…

— H. L. Mencken

“When I write, I go to live inside the book. By which I mean, mentally I can experience everything I’m writing about.…

— Tanith Lee

“For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you’re the only writer in existence;…

— Martin Cosgrove

Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“From the time I arrived on the Cape, one of the things I chose explicitly was to put my writing first. Everything…

— Marge Piercy

The writer works in a lonely way.

— Irwin Shaw

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

— Anonymous

In good writing, words become one with things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let a book be your best defense to boredom”

— Carmela Dutra

You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.

— Lauren Myracle

“Books are like treasure to me Bre”

— Bre

I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.

— Mike Epps

Don't talk about it; write.

— Ray Bradbury