Writer Quotes · Page 367

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

— Jodie Foster

No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different.

— Celeste Ng

“One of the great books of our time. I should know; I wrote it." (apocryphal)”

— Tim Roux

“Writing a book should be the best way to break into someone's house.”

— Krishna

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

— Gene Luen Yang

When you aren't doing too many films, people find other things to write about you.

— Arjun Kapoor

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know…

— Jez Butterworth

“All through my journey his stories had fallen like snow. He was as full of them as a library with unmarked shelves.…

— Sofia Samatar

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

— Ray Bradbury

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote…

— Macaulay Culkin

“Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did.”

— Patrick Stump

I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and…

— Mannie Fresh

The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different…

— Samantha Hunt

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a…

— Sven Birkerts

My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name…

— Misha Glenny

It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a…

— Charles Dickens

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences…

— Julie Burchill

Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books .…

— William H Gass

Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American…

— Jonathan Franzen

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak…

— Christopher Meledandri

“Sometimes I run fast when I feel like it, but if I increase the pace I shorten the amount of time I…

— Haruki Murakami

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

— Thomas Mann

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm a writer and I also do a lot of professional speaking on risk taking and creativity as well.

— William Gurstelle

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

— Eddie Van Halen

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

— Henning Mankell

There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved.

— Billy Howle

In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home.

— Gretchen Rubin

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

— Alice Walker

I've been writing short stories since I was a little girl.

— Anna Karina

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

— Charles Simic

“And I cannot read a page of anything I’ve written without making five changes—that’s my average.”

— Stephenie Meyer

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

— Benjamin Clementine

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

— Beverly Cleary