Writer Quotes · Page 317

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

“Libraries are place where one can find satisfaction through books by discovering more ideas”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

“Working with people made me like my books so much more.”

— Lynn Cahoon

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

— Laura Lippman

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book.

— Robert Crais

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page.”

— Rachel Anders

So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

— Robert Bloch

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

— Gabriel Fielding

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

— Horace

The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant…

— E. M. Forster

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read)…

— Sylvia Plath

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building…

— Robertson Davies

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

— Anne Rivers Siddons

I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over…

— John Hodgman

“Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its…

— Joseph Conrad

I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these…

— Steve Toltz

“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of…

— Anna Quindlen

“The way a writer has to grapple with understanding and expressing issues is so exacting that this hobby soon sharpens thought processes,…

— Johnson C. Philip

“Sterling Memorial, the main library at Yale, had been built to resemble a Gothic cathedral, replete with stained glass, carved stonework, and…

— Monique Truong

I wrote in the mornings, often in cafes, on the way to the office. I gave myself a daily word minimum, usually…

— Christopher Castellani

I am at my happiest when I'm problem solving and a large part of writing is for me a lovely labor in…

— Zia Haider Rahman

So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company.

— Lauren Weisberger

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.

— Donald McKay

I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.

— Elmore Leonard

Whenever I run out of people to write about, I cook up a few ghosts, or they appear before me.

— Ruskin Bond

It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full.

— Ryan North

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

— Julianna Baggott

I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents.

— William John Wills

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

— Fay Weldon

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

— Paullina Simons

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

— Tracy Chapman

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

— Marianne Moore

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

— John Ashbery

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

— Uri Shulevitz

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

— Marilyn Johnson

“If investors only had to study the past, the richest people would be librarians.”

— Daniel Pecaut

“Tension is making the reader ask a question, and then not answering it.”

— Rachel Aaron