Writer Quotes · Page 207

“Never give up. Never. Ever. Ever.”

— Nancy Hendrickson

The book belongs to the author.

— Maxwell Perkins

I read books to read myself.

— Sven Birkerts

I try to get through a book every two weeks.

— Andre Iguodala

To write is to right things. A path will emerge.

— Julia Cameron

You live several lives while reading [a good book].

— William Styron

If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.

— William Campbell Gault

Reading civilized the inner life.

— Mason Cooley

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

— Jack London

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.

— Delta Burke

Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.

— Edward M. Lerner

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

— William Butler Yeats

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

— Monica Hesse

One day people asked to me why are you read,learn so much I said just I feel my lov when I read…

— Suraj Ary

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

— Anthony Horowitz

“I only hold the pen while my mind does the writing”

— PJ Bayliss

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach…

— Howard Nemerov

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write…

— Alex Flinn

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.

— Richard Russo

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

— Jay Asher

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

“As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we…

— Francis Spufford

“The good news about self publishing is you get to do everything yourself. The bad news about self publishing is you get…

— Lori Lesko

“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can…

— Etgar Keret

For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the…

— Derek Sivers

Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even…

— C. S. Lewis

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had…

— Edmund White

“You will write … if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the…

— Amit Goswami

Sometimes when you write something, you have that day when you start writing and you feel really good, and you start changing…

— John Talabot

“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to…

— Roman Payne

I didn't become a writer to write about me.

— Salman Rushdie

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

— Jeffrey Archer

Your library is your paradise.

— Desiderius Erasmus

I always, always wanted to be a writer.

— Howard Jacobson

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

— Anonymous

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

— Joe Wright

I have disassociated myself from that book.

— Uta Hagen

“Home is wherever my books are.”

— Mary Beth Hall