Writer Quotes · Page 257

When you write about esoteric things, it can be way out there.

— James Van Praagh

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. 'Were”

— Charles Dickens

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

— Dave Eggers

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

— Jill Scott

“Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands”

— Rae Carson

Life is like a book, some friends make till the end and others get lost in the chapters

— Anonymous

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

— Will Thomas

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

— Isaac Asimov

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I…

— Anonymous

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all…

— Theodore Sturgeon

I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do,…

— Charles Krauthammer

I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Smart writers understand that writing is also a business. Really smart writers see themselves also as entrepreneurs. Barry Eisler”

— Guy Kawasaki

“My happiness is nothing to him,” she said. “Only his books! He has made me like a book. I am not meant…

— Sarah Waters

“Stopping by one of the empty tables, I let out a little breath of happiness. I was always able to lose myself…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I don’t shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like…

— Peter Straub

Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests.…

— Walter Dean Myers

“Writing a book is both rewarding and inspiring The preparation, research and introduction of new chapters to an ever increasing text provides…

— Roy Taylor

“As mankind 'matures,' as it becomes more possible to be frank in the scrutiny of the self and others and in the…

— H. G. Wells

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or…

— Lucy Dacus

“Of course anyone who loves books buys more of them than she or he can hope to read in a lifetime. A…

— Boilerplate Rino

There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's…

— Terry Pratchett

I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.

— Arundhati Roy

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

— Raymond Buckland

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

— Alastair Reynolds

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

— George Cukor

I may not want to write every day, but I have no choice - there are deadlines to meet.

— Elin Hilderbrand

“I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.”

— Michael J. Kannengieser

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

— Henry Rollins

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

— Mason Cooley

“... you're never alone if you've got a book for company.”

— JoAnn Ross

Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books.

— G. N. Devy

Reading without understanding is like swallowing food without chewing.

— Vikrant Parsai

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

— Ezra Pound

Of course, building a character is easy when the writing is good.

— Helene Yorke

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

— Karl Kraus

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

— Walter Pater

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

— Anatole Broyard