Writer Quotes · Page 296

Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.

— Marisa Silver

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

— Walter Dean Myers

Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places.

— William Walker

“My idea of Hell is to be stuck in a library where all the books were authored by Marcel Proust.”

— Marc Rainer

“I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.”

— Amay Saxena

“Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.”

— R. YS Perez

I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

— Lena Waithe

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

— Ned Vizzini

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

— Ibrahim Babangida

“It is strange to hear my words Read back to me. I don't think I wrote them To have them ever leave…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

“You're welcome. I love the bargain book section. I always find some good deals at more than half off the cover price.”

— Amy Clipston

“I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got…

— Anne Holm

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like…

— Ann Patchett

John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand…

— Harry Belafonte

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

— John Updike

It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the…

— Anne Sexton

“Remember this, if you have written a couple dozen short stories and sold them to national markets, the chances are you know…

— William Campbell Gault

I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be…

— Richard Rodriguez

When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the…

— Paul Reiser

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“He found himself in a room not unlike the shop. All books again, packed tight on shelves or laying in piles on…

— Jenny Nimmo

What took you so long?” Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of…

— Libba Bray

“When you release your first book, all you really need is to get a few people to love it. When you release…

— Sean Platt

“I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed…

— Martha Southgate

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

— Anne Roiphe

When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to.

— Sia

Reading is something most people do every day and I didn't know it would mean so much to me.

— Jay Blades

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

— Phillip Lopate

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

— Anne Lamott

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

— Sophie Thompson

It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'

— Katherine Dunn

If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.

— Kevin Nealon

Books aren't just made of papers, pages and words. They're made of hopes, dreams and possibilities.

— Anonymous

“You get a happy feeling helping someone read. You feel sort of like a wizard.”

— Joanne Rocklin

“When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.

— Harold Pinter

I write when I get bored, when I have nothing to do.

— Lonzo Ball

“why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true”

— Kinky Friedman

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

— Rosemary Mahoney