Writer Quotes · Page 225

Books are doors to another world.

— Anonymous

Our literature is in great shape.

— James Welch

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.

— Erskine Caldwell

Books are always the best accessories to anything.

— Jeremiah Brent

“For me, reading is remembering.”

— Cat Patrick

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

— E. B. White

“Every reader his [or her] book.”

— S. R. Ranganathan

The world was hers for the reading.

— Betty Smith

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

— J. G. Ballard

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

— Elizabeth Bowen

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

— Jim Rash

If you enjoy your journey as a writer, you will never find it difficult to write.

— Ruskin Bond

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

— James T. Farrell

Last year, I didn't even know his last name. But this year? I write it more than my own.

— Anonymous

“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on Reading p. 281”

— Alberto Manguel

“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.”

— Robert Arger

I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that…

— John Green

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it…

— Charles Forsman

Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.

— Francois Truffaut

I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original…

— Louise Wilson

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in…

— John Rhys-Davies

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death…

— Alan Wilson Watts

If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's…

— Michael Haneke

“I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally…

— Walter Moers

I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of…

— Raymond Chandler

One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies,…

— Stephenie Meyer

“He had a kind of urgent drive to be forever producing something, to get involved in more and more projects, to leave…

— Benoît Peeters

Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to…

— Mary J. Miller

Good writing is rewriting.

— Truman Capote

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Writing opens the door to imagination.”

— Joe Evener

The first sentence of a book is a promise.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Writing is the handmaiden of leadership.”

— William Zinsser

“The greatest work of fiction by any man”

— Centaur Editions

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

— Anonymous