Writer Quotes · Page 252

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

— Jackee Harry

“Most of our customers have rather liked The Book Thief.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it.

— Julia Glass

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“i write because it is the only way i can reach you.”

— Sanober Khan

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.”

— Serina Hartwell

“You don't see people getting pulled over by the police for reading ebooks on their smartphones.”

— Jason Merkoski

“i write because if i did not, i would surely go mad. but perhaps being a little bit mad is why i…

— Drunk-On-Writing

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

— John Hodgman

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able…

— PJ Harvey

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever…

— Bell Hooks

“If you cannot read all your books... let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”

— Jane Davis

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the…

— Ian Mckellen

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

— Peter Sotos

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

— Malcolm X

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing…

— Franz Wright

“That's the big difference between [the BookWorld] and [the RealWorld]," said Plum. "When things happen after a randomly pointless event, all that…

— Jasper Fforde

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish…

— Annie Dillard

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them.…

— Soman Chainani

By 2013, at the age of 29, I was failing. I had left two good jobs in succession to complete a novel…

— Karan Mahajan

“Read with two objects," advised Osler, "first, to acquaint yourself with the current knowledge on a subject and the steps by which…

— Phil R. Manning

The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length…

— Patricia Highsmith

I don't even care what Bill Bryson writes about because he will make it interesting. I love "A Walk in the Woods,"…

— Dave Barry

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

— Alexander Smith

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

— Sam Tanenhaus

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

— Norman Cousins

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

— Carrie Brownstein

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

— John Milius

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate.

— Joseph O'Neill

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

— Roald Dahl

One Best Book Is Equal To Hundred Good Friends.. But One Best Friend Is More Than A Library

— Anwar Saicha

“Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.”

— Ian McNulty

“Both of them are obvious dwellers in the valley of the shadow of books.”

— George Gissing

“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To all those aspiring writers who dream first and sleep later.”

— L.C. Perry

“People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“Rook is reading the bulletin intently, like she’s studying for a test. God, I love her.”

— J.A. Huss