Writer Quotes · Page 348

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

— Miguel de Unamuno

I'm not a good business person when it comes to my writing.

— Tanya Saracho

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.”

— Caro Clarke

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

— E. L. Doctorow

“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.”

— Alice Hoffman

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

— Italo Calvino

“Being a bestseller doesnt mean they wrote a great book. Just means they knew a lot of people who would buy it.”

— David A. Santos

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better.…

— Kristen Stewart

“I spill my heart on pure white pages, and let the ink dance and twirl into the splattered story of my soul.”

— Liz Newman

“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.”

— Raymond A. Mar

“Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood,…

— Robert Black

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by…

— Susan Orlean

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long…

— John Irving

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used…

— Michael Palin

“When getting my nose in a book Cured most things short of school, It was worth ruining my eyes To know I…

— Philip Larkin

After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A…

— Robin Sloan

“The living room is dark and low-ceilinged, with bookshelves all along the wall opposite the windows. These books have not made George…

— Christopher Isherwood

And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've…

— Glenn Close

“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned…

— Ray Bradbury

In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written…

— Etgar Keret

“writing is a very lonely occupation. You have no colleagues, but your office space is shared with countless horrible little demons of…

— Daphne Kapsali

In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type…

— Robert Darnton

“Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.”

— Elena Ferrante

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

— Joseph Haydn

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

— Robert Anderson

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

— Robert M. Gates

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

— Ernest Hemingway

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

— John Lennon

I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about.

— Ricky Gervais

I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing."

— George Saunders

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

— Mervyn Peake

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

— Ken Kesey

“I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don't you?”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

— Charles Kingsley

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

— Francoise Sagan

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

— Ernst Fischer