Writer Quotes · Page 290

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

— Wallace Stegner

“I prefer reading books than the time on your watch.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.

— Corey Smith

“The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." Mark Twain”

— Tim Underwood

The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.

— Anonymous

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

— Mos Def

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

— Anais Nin

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

— Stephen Hawking

One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me…

— Elif Batuman

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

— Julia Cameron

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

— Franklin Pierce Adams

“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind…

— Lloyd Alexander

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

— Kathy Acker

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in…

— Sven Birkerts

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

— Daniel J. Bernstein

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it.…

— Chaim Potok

If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit…

— Maxwell Perkins

I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of…

— James Patterson

…a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also…

— Anonymous

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them,…

— Michael Silverblatt

“So I write thoughts and emotions Taking birth in words And dying unsung in words! Words stitched together To give meaning to…

— Avijeet Das

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a…

— Guy Kawasaki

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a…

— Lloyd Jones

“Books are, I find, the best provisions a man can take with him on life’s journey.”

— Stefan Zweig

“Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.”

— Anonymous

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

— Fran Lebowitz

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

— Anonymous

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

— Stephen King

Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.

— Merritt Wever

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

— Northrop Frye

“If you were a book, I’d read you, touch you, look at you every day and never get bored.”

— Ella Fields

“He said to me, ‘The book has found its reader,’ and what could I do but agree with him?”

— Thomas Ligotti

You can always find something better to do than writing when you're at home.

— John Cooper Clarke

I carry a notepad which is 5.5' x 3.8' which fits snugly into my pocket.

— Tim Key

Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

— Angelina Jolie

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

— Ken Kesey

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

— Haruki Murakami

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

— Marshall McLuhan

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

— Edward Abbey