Writer Quotes · Page 278

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

— Francis Alexander Durivage

“Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.”

— Annie Dillard

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

— Jane Austen

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

— Christopher Morley

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

— Stephen Sondheim

About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.

— Tim LaHaye

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.

— Molly Keane

“If we know the books located at the bedside, we know much about the man.”

— Douglas L. Callister

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop.…

— Linda Hamilton

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put…

— Sally Rooney

“Reader, if you don’t know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase…

— Neal Stephenson

“And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own…

— Ross King

“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word.…

— Tarun Betala

“Truth is not a saga of alarming episodes; it is a detail, usually a small one, that gives a fiction life.”

— Paul Theroux

Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

— Jeff Bezos

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions…

— Emily Susan Rapp

I always, at least back then, struggled with emotion in writing. I felt like I could do odd, unusual things, but there…

— Ben Marcus

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a…

— John Carpenter

It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not…

— David Bergen

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and…

— David Guterson

“A well-written article does not make what was written factual or something to subscribe to. Fiction does not become fact because it…

— Loren Weisman

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly,…

— Louis Sachar

“The study's small ventilation window bumped open, and Vin squeezed through, pulling in a puff of mist behind her. She closed the…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Literature tried to open the universe, to increase, even if only slightly the sum total of what it was possible for human…

— Salmon Rushdie

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

— Kellan Lutz

I do like Pat Conroy, and 'The Great Santini' is an iconic book.

— Douglas Brunt

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

— John Lennon

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

— Carl Hiaasen

“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.”

— Amit Kalantri

“...books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval...”

— Will Schwalbe

Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

— Douglas Adams

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

— Scott Turow

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

— Sarah Dessen

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

— John Grisham

Books are fun and your genre can help describe you love who you are and respect the title.

— BBL

“Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you’re not alone.”

— Paula Gruben

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua

“Bibliomancy: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.”

— Marilyn Johnson