Writer Quotes · Page 346

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

— Northrop Frye

“Books are a place away from routine, a place associated with dreams and fantasies.”

— The Gutenberg Elegies

“Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.”

— Andrew Taylor

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

— Maud Hart Lovelace

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

— Twinkle Khanna

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

— Lynn Cahoon

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

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must…

— Robert Walser

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“ I never said turning the page was going to be easy. That page has memories & people. Its getting full &…

— Nathacha Nucamendi

There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more…

— Alan Taylor

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to…

— John Irving

The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them…

— Jenny Holzer

A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand.…

— Markus Zusak

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its…

— Morgan Parker

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When…

— Jonathan Lethem

“It is the modern literature of the educated, not of the uneducated, which is avowedly and aggressively criminal..The vast mass of humanity,…

— Anonymous

The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly,…

— Lu Xun

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all…

— Tobias Wolff

Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer…

— Eric Burns

I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them,…

— Dee Rees

The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

— Robert Crais

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Lauren Weisberger

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

— Rachel Anders

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

— Ryan North

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

— Ruskin Bond

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

— William John Wills

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

— Julianna Baggott

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

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

— Uri Shulevitz

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

— John Ashbery

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

— Marianne Moore