Writer Quotes · Page 279

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

— Kevin Henkes

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.

— Helen Oyeyemi

“It's not about how much you read, but, how much you work what you read.”

— Unverified

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

— Taylor Swift

Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first.

— Fiona Barton

“Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.”

— Amy Joy

“I love to read books! There are so many authors that I think are really fun to read.”

— Tom Angleberger

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

— Italo Calvino

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing…

— Robert Coover

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

— J. Paul Getty

Six books after the surprises of 'Full Dark House,' the Bryant and May novels continue to stay within the bounds of formula…

— Sarah Weinman

Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of…

— Hari Kunzru

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

— Don DeLillo

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter…

— Natalie Goldberg

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that…

— Anne Rice

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed…

— Susan Hill

Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Writing for late night is really good for learning how to write when you don't want to write. You have to produce…

— Michelle Wolf

“What the best fiction does is make powerful affirmations of familiar truths...the trivial fiction which times filters out is that which either…

— John Gardner

The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy…

— Joe Queenan

I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A…

— Kingsley Amis

How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and…

— Ellen Gilchrist

“Have you ever been writing something when you just forgot where you were, and what time it was, and you kept diving…

— Peter Gould

“The thing about this bookshelf is that each of these books is a vast experience unto itself, while also being both self-contained…

— Jonathan Lethem

“The hardest part of writing is the same as doing your homework...it's staying seated in your chair.”

— Anonymous

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

— Thomas Lansing Masson

“Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us.”

— Paul Theroux

I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

— Jessa Crispin

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

— Ernest Hemingway

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.

— Jeff Baena

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

— Kevin Kwan

I believe if you've written a book, you have to stand up and say, 'Guys, buy the book.'

— Ravi Subramanian

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

— Dominick Dunne

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

— Julian Barnes

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

— Henry James

“The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.”

— A.E. Poynor

“a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence.”

— Donna Tartt

The hoes is librarians, they lookin me up. She got a Jones like Marion, she lickin me up.

— J Cole

I'm going to book-and-author dinners, and I'm the author!

— William Lashner