Writer Quotes · Page 352

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

— Harlan Coben

“Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.”

— Oliver Markus

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise...”

— Henry David Thoreau

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading…

— Isaac

“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.”

— Stefanos Livos

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

— Anna Sui

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

— Bob Dylan

I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied…

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that…

— Irvine Welsh

I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I…

— Jay Neugeboren

“she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside,…

— Rachel Simon

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved…

— Julie Klassen

“I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.”

— Sara Sheridan

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

— Marco Roth

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books…

— Amy Tan

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw…

— Hoda Kotb

At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of…

— Amish Tripathi

I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things…

— Vito Acconci

Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write.…

— Ashwin Sanghi

For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer…

— Ellen Hopkins

Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is,…

— Julia Glass

“focus completely and without distraction on a single research task. (He typically divides the writing of a scholarly paper into three discrete…

— Cal Newport

There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for…

— Cynthia Ozick

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

— Henry L. Stimson

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

— Paris Hilton

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

“Breadwinning and the art of writing must be kept absolutely apart.”

— Anonymous

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

— Gustave Flaubert

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

— Joan Bauer

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what…

— Junot Diaz

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

— David Means

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

“I will read just about any book at least once! No matter what genre, I just love to read!”

— Traci Wilcox

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

— Eric Idle

“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.”

— Michael Graves

“Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Love when you open up your kindle and find the next book in series you forgot was coming <3”

— Tara Ahrendt

“You used to be entertaining before you started to write.”

— f scoot fitzgerald