Writer Quotes · Page 350

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

— John Green

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

— Henry Channon

I don't tend to re-read things, but never say never.

— Phoebe Fox

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

— Thomas Carlyle

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

— Stephen J. Dubner

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

— Mortimer Adler

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

— Ethel Wilson

“As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”

— Stephen Colbert

I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that…

— Uzodinma Iweala

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up…

— J. D. Salinger

“She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually…

— Marilyn Jager Adams

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked…

— Anonymous

“Write every day, as many hours as you can. Don't worry about page count. You'll have to worry about that soon enough,…

— Darrell Pitt

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

— Jean Rostand

My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of…

— Sarah Bird

Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels…

— Eudora Welty

“You're never confident. You go in fear and trembling every day. It would be awfully nice to think that you know how…

— Wallace Stegner

The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers…

— Charles Ghigna

I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe…

— Michael Tobias

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“How dearly, indeed, I loved my pit, my dusky room, the area of my desk with its piles of books! How I…

— Yukio Mishima

The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down?…

— E. L. Doctorow

I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my…

— Andrew Bird

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

— Jimmy Breslin

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

— Erin Gruwell

“Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.”

— Joe Hill

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

— Marilyn Hacker

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

— Kate Nash

I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just good at it.

— Benny the Butcher

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

— Frances McDormand

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

— Anonymous

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

— Marge Piercy

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.”

— Alain de Botton

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

— China Mieville

“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

— Dan Barker

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I have an uncomfortable groove, 'cause I have a lot of different kinds of stories to tell.

— Richard Linklater