Writer Quotes · Page 297

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

— Michael Swanwick

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

— Grant Heslov

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.”

— Marcel Proust

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

— Mencius

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

— E. B. White

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

— Anne Michaels

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

— Norton Juster

Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

— Julia Cameron

You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books.

— Narendra Modi

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should…

— Edward Abbey

There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'.

— Frank Deford

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much…

— Orhan Pamuk

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

— Marie de France

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced…

— Tana French

“Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not…

— Joseph Gies

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To…

— Christopher Morley

When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved…

— Simon McBurney

This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it's…

— Adam Morris

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory…

— Diane Setterfield

What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all…

— Roy Kesey

“A man who possesses the art of correct reading will … instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth…

— HITLER

I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote…

— P. L. Travers

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

— Kate DiCamillo

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

— Winston Churchill

'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.

— Dean Devlin

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

— Dennis Cooper

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

— Horace Walpole

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

— Tony Gilroy

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

— James Russell Lowell

The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

— Robert Benchley

“There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.”

— Graham Greene

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

— Neil Gaiman

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

— Glenn Howerton

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

— Anthony Powell

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

— Betty Smith

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Your pen must not only create words, it must carve a story into something touching human or beyond.”

— Nyhterides

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

— Anita Brookner