Writer Quotes · Page 251

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

— Eudora Welty

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

— Frank McCourt

“When you face writer's block, just lower your standards and keep going.”

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

— Nicole Kidman

I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

— Paul Beatty

Awesome piece of literature work can be found mostly in sad and angry hearts

— Kevin Knight

“She set her book carefully down, dog-earing a corner of her page with love.”

— Sandhya Menon

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

— Steve Martin

“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.”

— Jeanette Winterson

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious…

— Thomas Steinbeck

“Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents…

— William Henry Channing

You are at some point exposed to a wonderful story, and you really want to know what happens next, so you learn…

— Diana Gabaldon

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many…

— Joseph Joubert

“My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of…

— Ivan Doig

Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to…

— Finn Wittrock

“ If there is a subject that is my own, my dear Ellen, as a writer I mean, it is the persistent…

— A.S. Byatt

I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want…

— Harper Lee

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic…

— Colm Toibin

“His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the…

— Joseph Frank

“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not…

— Stephen King

Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the…

— Hisham Matar

Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war.…

— Walter Mosley

It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it…

— Natalie Goldberg

“One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. A half-remembered line is echoed by another for reasons…

— Alberto Manguel

At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

— Philippa Gregory

“Getting published - keep knocking on the door and never give up until it opens.”

— Peter G. Jones

“The book thief had struck for the first time - the beginning of an illustrious career.”

— Markus Zusak

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

— Sydney Pollack

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

— Amanda Hocking

“Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?”

— David John Richards

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

— Michel de Montaigne

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

— Aimee Mann

“Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt…but do read...”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

— Mason Cooley

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

— Paul Valery

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

— Sara Gruen

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

— Terry Pratchett

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

— Robert Sheckley

“I have never passed a bookstore without going inside; it's sacrilegious”

— Denise Hildreth

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

— Jupiter Hammon