Writer Quotes · Page 256

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

— Ray Bradbury

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

— Howard Nemerov

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

— John Green

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

— Robert D. Putnam

“Books became my life, or maybe I should say books became the way I escaped from my life.”

— Beth Hoffman

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

— William Faulkner

I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me.

— George Pelecanos

Man never stop to scrolling,until his chapter is't closed

— Kavinder Kanwar

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working…

— William Finnegan

“Ow! Dammit!" "Watch your language. This is a holy place." "Hah!" I grumbled. "If it's so holy, why don't they have a…

— Cecily White

From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make…

— Pat Conroy

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature…

— George Saunders

That's how I process issues. I like writing them out. It's calming for me when things slow down in that way.

— Alisyn Camerota

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in…

— John Cheever

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing…

— Patti Smith

I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt…

— Italo Calvino

We live in a time when the values of courage and honesty, particularly for women writers, equate to confessing only the darkest,…

— Anonymous

To Nobody, then, will I write my Journal! since to Nobody can I be wholly unreserved, to Nobody can I reveal every…

— Fanny Burney

But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and twitch…

— John Ciardi

Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“I thought about the people I had met who were in pain but were pretending that everything was fine. And I thought,…

— Julie Schumacher

Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our…

— Lloyd Alexander

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship,…

— Rosemary Mahoney

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

— Christopher Morley

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

— Lord Byron

“Book authors are born where credentials meet platform.”

— Chuck Sambuchino

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

— Jane Brody

“Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.”

— Barbara Abercrombie

Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.

— Seth Godin

You ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

— Jim Gaffigan

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

— Kevin Barry

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

— Robert Sheckley

I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

— Richard Flanagan

I've always read voraciously since I was a kid and for me, there's no snobbery around books.

— Andi Oliver

I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

— Steve Martin

“I've always loved joining clubs--although, in truth, they're usually book clubs." ~Robecca Steam”

— Gitty Daneshvari

“Love, for me, is something I find in books. You're never alone if you are surrounded by books”

— Sophie Divry

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

— Raymond Chandler