Writer Quotes · Page 299

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

— Grace Paley

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

— Steve Vai

“If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.”

— Maggie Osborne

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

— Jim Rash

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

— Bill Watterson

“Writing is the skillful expression of feelings through the vehicle of words”

— Christian Michael

Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'

— Anthony Minghella

“Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps.”

— Harry Bauld

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

— Anne Lamott

“Do not say I have no time to read. Set a daily time (15-20 minutes)for reading. Reading is rich source of wisdom…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and…

— Anthony Doerr

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

— Irwin Shaw

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

— Jami Attenberg

I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually…

— Serena Williams

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And…

— Katherine Paterson

“True, there are those in our league who take even less time. But they don't do any research. They do a handful…

— Haruki Murakami

“Writing isn't easy because you have to relieve the most painful moments of your life, over and over again, and then you…

— Cristian Mihai

A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient…

— Vicki Myron

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of…

— E.B. White

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't…

— Stephen King

“Dark books say to us, “This isn’t about you. You are in fact alive and safe.” Yes, there’s an implicit and unavoidable…

— Pamela Paul

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad.…

— Gillian Flynn

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

— Stephen Fry

After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal

“Reading is dangerous, because the more you read, the more you realise how little you know.”

— S.E. SEVER

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

— Bill Moyers

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

— Desiderius Erasmus

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

— Hallie Ephron

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

— Anonymous

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

— John Turturro

“If one were happy, then one might stay in with a book, say, and not go out hunting for fun”

— Kathleen Rooney

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

— Jonathan Lethem

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

— Neil Patrick Harris

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

— Indira Gandhi