Writer Quotes · Page 167

When you want to write well, wake up at 5 A.M.

— Susannah Cahalan

“Reading is one way to get into pensieve”

— Shayla Felisa

It takes a long time to publish a book.

— Kenneth Koch

An author departs; he does not die.

— Anonymous

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

— Virginia Woolf

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

— Antonio Tabucchi

When I'm not training, I'm reading.

— Joseph Parker

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

— Conrad Hall

“There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.”

— Richard Marek

I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch,

— Michael Ondaatje

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

— Zadie Smith

New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.

— Toni Jerrman

I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.

— Gina Rodriguez

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

— Richard Baxter

“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Gardens are poems Where you stroll with your hands in your pockets. (Les jardins sont des poemes Ou l'on se promene les…

— Pierre Albert-Birot

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

— James Redfield

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the…

— Ray Bradbury

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would…

— Clive Cussler

“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would…

— Ali Smith

Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Today, retired but not defeated, I enjoy the sacred privilege of writing at home, with the phone off the hook so that…

— Gabriel García Márquez

You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and…

— Simon Sinek

“Mature readers consider reading an integral part of life. It is not something they do only to relax or to escape or…

— Judith Wynn Halsted

“Even the earliest silent readers recognized the striking change in their consciousness that took place as they immersed themselves in the pages…

— Nicholas Carr

I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the…

— Roy Blount, Jr

“The good days are when you perform; the slow days are when you learn to perform better. The only bad days as…

— Chris Cleave

“I think I was born to write. My mother would put a typewriter on the dining room table and say "there you…

— Ida Pollock

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

— Jack Bickham

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

— O. Henry

“This book is something else… It's a must read”

— Leondrei Prince

Writers are always diverse on the inside.

— Pat Mora

“My writing is my internal dialogue—”

— R.A. Salvatore

“Because books can take you everywhere!”

— Patricia Paris

I read whatever the publisher sends me.

— Kate DiCamillo

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

— Frank Crane