Writer Quotes · Page 235

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

— Susan Cheever

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

— Jean Rhys

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

— Seymour Hersh

I really didnt intend to become an author, but I just happened to fall into it.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Antique pages were a scent that should be bottled up and sold to those who adored the aroma.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

“I have never seen a peaceful environment better than libraries”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“One can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.”

— Laini Taylor

As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there…

— Donald Ray Pollock

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You…

— P.B. Kerr

One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them…

— Philip Pullman

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and…

— Jill Hennessy

I always want to try to bring something fresh to every book. It's getting harder instead of easier. I feel like I…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book…

— Larry Winget

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

— Colin Wilson

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very…

— Denise Duhamel

“A couple of months ago, I became depressed by the realization that I'd forgotten pretty much everything I've ever read. I have,…

— Nick Hornby

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in…

— Zadie Smith

“I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their…

— Monica Wood

For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are…

— Philip Kitcher

I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that…

— Alyson Richman

“They were as real as Sara, and it was careless of them not to come out of the story shadowland and say,…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“...in one of his Irish Times columns written under the name of Myles na gCopaleen, [Flann] O’Brien offered a service to readers…

— Colm Tóibin

All the authors who've ultimately published Louder Than Words memoirs have been very happy to be chosen and excited about the possibility…

— Deborah Reber

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I realised that what I loved was descriptive writing rather than something with a plot.

— Arlo Parks

“Before bed I do a bit of light reading. I’m reading a 50-pound book on midgets.”

— Jarod Kintz

A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.

— Matt Mullenweg

“Learn to write. Never mind the damn statistics. If you like statistics, become a CPA.”

— Amit Tiwari

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

— Stephen D. Krashen

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

— Czeslaw Milosz

You become a serious novelist by living long enough.

— Don DeLillo

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

— John Scott

“Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise.”

— Rett MacPherson

“Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books.”

— K. Lamb

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

— Ahmed H. Zewail

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

— Jon Heder

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

— James Bryce

“Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.”

— Marcus Aurelius