Writer Quotes · Page 266

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

— Anonymous

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

— Bill Russell

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

— Ambrose Bierce

“So you're a librarian." His eyes shifted back and forth. "I prefer loremaster.”

— Brandon Mull

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

— Camilla Lackberg

“All writers would like to be overrated in their own lifetimes.”

— Jay Parini

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

— Deb Caletti

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to…

— Victoria Chang

It's none of their business that you had to learn how to write. Let them think that you were born that way.

— Ernest Hemingway

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind -…

— St. Lucia

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.

— Pankaj Mishra

“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human…

— Frances Stead Stellers

“Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess”

— Alan Bennett

“Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting…

— Nora DeLoach

“In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to…

— Charles Bracelen Flood

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see…

— Brian A. McBride

There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume…

— William Zinsser

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his…

— Steven Spielberg

I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.…

— David Foster Wallace

“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and…

— Sy Safransky

I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful…

— Jesmyn Ward

“ Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to…

— Richard K. Morgan

“job and Career Information Services Committee of the Adult Lifelong Learning Section of the Public Library Division of the American Library Association…

— Public Library Association

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

— Omar Khayyam

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

— Wilbur Smith

Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

— David Hare

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

— Samuel Johnson

I want to put out a few books throughout my lifetime.

— Katelyn Ohashi

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

— Elizabeth Meriwether

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

— Michael Morpurgo

If you're a writer, you're constantly doubting yourself.

— Tom King

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

— Sara Paretsky

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

— Jean Rhys

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

— Anne Sexton

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”

— Harold Howe

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

— Catie Curtis

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

— Jeanne Henry