Writer Quotes · Page 34

“Writing is a compulsion”

— Airambooksie

“Read, read, read.”

— William Faulkner

The writer is all alone.

— V. S. Naipaul

“who wrote book 1st”

— John Green

“Stress less - read.”

— Rich Albright

“She’s read many books.”

— Kate Elliott

I do write my own stuff.

— Sabrina Claudio

Writers speak stench.

— Franz Kafka

Thunderous action and nail-biting suspense

— Peter Travers

“Just as we are what we eat, we are what we read.”

— Jason Merkoski

You will be transformed by what you read.

— Deepak Chopra

Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.

— E. Jean Carroll

“Live first, write second.”

— Miranda Paul

I think Jack Thorne is an exceptional writer.

— Sarah Lancashire

literature is the last banquet between minds.

— Edna O'Brien

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

— Cornelia Funke

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

— John Gay

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

— Doris Lessing

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

— John Irving

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

— James Lipton

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

— William Hague

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

— Dana Spiotta

There's no doubt that New York held its temptations for any writer - it still does.

— Adrian Dunbar

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that…

— Joseph Epstein

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”

— Patricia Fuller

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read…

— Anonymous

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

— Edna O'Brien

Everyone should have a form of a diary its a great release Most peoples Diaries are called My Diary Mines called Conversations…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a…

— John Waters

“After each book the world changes in my eyes, i have become more suspicious and eager at the same time.”

— Anna Jae

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the…

— Jane Haddam

“There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?” said Mr. Brownlow, observing the curiosity with which Oliver surveyed the…

— Charles Dickens

The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast…

— Jonathan Evison

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of…

— Jack Kerouac

Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between…

— David Bezmozgis

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's…

— Ray Bradbury

“How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met?" "You'll…

— Bret Easton Ellis

"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg."…

— Haruki Murakami

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I…

— Philip Pullman