Writer Quotes · Page 286

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

— Anonymous

As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.

— Alexandra Petri

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

— Henry David Thoreau

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I love Walter Mosley and Robert Parker crime novels. And I read a lot of music reviews.

— Van Hunt

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

— Jonathan Evison

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

— Paul Fussell

Life is like a book; Some friends are in there for a page, some are there for a chapter, but true ones…

— Nishan Panwar

“That is, so to speak, my own story. If I had a wish, I would wish that the sounds of the turning…

— Akizuki Sorata

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines…

— Jill Lepore

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on…

— Lori Greiner

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all…

— Andrew Garfield

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

— Louis Menand

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person…

— Howard Jacobson

“The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy…

— Thomas Hardy

“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman…

— Aminatta Forna

My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on…

— Cassandra Clare

“Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need…

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

I dont want to be a book, When you dont know the story what so ever, I dont want to be your…

— Myothersweetangel199 SparklingAngel25

you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at…

— Susan Cain

“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the…

— Brenda Ueland

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was…

— Junot Diaz

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

— Orson Scott Card

“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”

— Hank Moody

“I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.”

— Lang Leav

I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

— Naomi Alderman

“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.”

— Henry Miller

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

— Robert Jordan

With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.

— Lynne Rae Perkins

When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

— Quincy Jones

“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional”

— Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

“Here are my criteria for a good book: you start reading and you don't stop.”

— Anonymous

“The truth was much simpler. When do you become a writer? “When you say you are,” he said. I”

— Jeff Goins

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

— Donald Barthelme

“These words I write, why I decided to write them, none of it will matter”

— Emily Curtis

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.”

— Gloria Steinem

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

— E. B. White