Writer Quotes · Page 349

“In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.”

— Richard L. Brandt

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

— Walter Moers

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

— Tamora Pierce

“Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever.”

— Marina Nemat

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

— Irving Langmuir

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

— Anne Enright

“I’m only doing this because I started it and now I have to finish it,” he adds. “The next trilogy will be…

— J. W. Rinzler

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

Friends R like a page in a book of life, Every page with a different subject. But best friends r d index…

— Abhijeet

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor…

— Tom Rachman

I had huge ambition for literature. I don't see the point of doing anything if you don't have ambition for it.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Mwandishi lazima awe msomaji wa kila aina ya maandishi anayoweza kusoma. Akipanua upeo wake namna hiyo, kila atakachoandika kitaacha nukuu.”

— Enock Maregesi

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all…

— Jody Lynn Nye

“Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we…

— Shaun David Hutchinson

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that…

— Harry Turtledove

...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can…

— Barack Obama

“To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it…

— Clark Ashton Smith

There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of…

— Anthony Bourdain

I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the…

— T.C. Boyle

“Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same…

— Marcia Preston

“And suddenly, having waited so long to hold it in my hands, I felt paralyzed to read it. Certainly, I was unable…

— Sana Krasikov

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

— Karl Lagerfeld

“Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

— Atul Gawande

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

— Julien Green

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

— Jeffery Deaver

As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.

— Gail Honeyman

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

— Jack London

I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.

— Eden Robinson

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

— Mark Millar

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

— Enoch Powell

I do know great books help shape who I am and how I look at life.

— Mat Kearney

Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

— Peter S. Prescott

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

— Matthew Specktor