Writer Quotes · Page 298

Just start writing and you'll find what you want to say.

— Kurt Braunohler

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

— Dorothea Brande

“Books will give you new ideas to fly and books can be find in the libraries”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

“No matter how valuable these books, it seems a bit sad to let them go unread,”

— Isuna Hasekura

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

— Edward Hirsch

The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.

— Laura Lippman

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

— Markus Zusak

I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there…

— Nas

In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new…

— Elizabeth Goudge

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day…

— Tracy Chevalier

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining…

— Oliver Goldsmith

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was…

— Colm Toibin

As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.

— Nicholas Stoller

As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be…

— Donald Barthelme

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand,…

— Paul Auster

“he job and Career Information Services Committee of the Adult Lifelong Learning Section of the Public Library Division of the American Library…

— Public Library Association

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel,…

— Eduardo Galeano

I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers…

— Hisham Matar

I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write…

— Mat Johnson

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in…

— Aminatta Forna

“It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great…

— Anaïs Nin

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

— A. S. Byatt

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry”

— Umberto Eco

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

— Anonymous

“My priority as a writer is that my reader's entertainment comes first, second, and last.”

— B.J. Kibble

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement...

— Virginia Woolf

A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.

— Dara Wier

“Van Houten, I'm a good person but a shitty writer. you're a shitty person but a good writer.”

— John Green

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

— Jerry Cantrell

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

— Mason Cooley

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

— Georges Simenon

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

— Michael Welch

I've tried everywhere, but my garden shed is the most effective place to write.

— Lee Mack

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber

“It pained Emily to her librarian’s soul to see books mistreated like this.”

— Deborah Harkness

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

— Meg Rosoff

“A sage is a library whose bookshelves are in his soul.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo