Writer Quotes · Page 368

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

— Bahya ibn Paquda

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

— Marya Hornbacher

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

— Amy Dickinson

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Choose a book," she said. "Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.”

— Peter V. Brett

“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.”

— Sara Sheridan

I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind”

— Kevin Cowdall

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. You’ll…

— Dr. Seuss

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't…

— Orhan Pamuk

If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few…

— Eric Hoffer

“If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.”

— David Sedaris

If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

— Ma Jian

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are…

— Kate DiCamillo

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way…

— Melvil Dewey

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better…

— Jerry Pournelle

Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap…

— Gene Weingarten

Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why…

— Lilith Saintcrow

“One great difference between good writing, that readers overlook, and bad writing, that they fail to notice, has to do with the…

— Ira Levin

“Problem, purpose, conflict, goal. Use them. Think about them while you are in the planning phase of your novel; keep these elements…

— Phyllis A. Whitney

Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years…

— Paul Hawken

Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and…

— Tayari Jones

I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn’t realized it (the original book) had survived, so…

— Harper Lee

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

— Nick Hornby

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

— Stephen King

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

— Anonymous

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

— Jane Yolen

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

— Nicholas Sparks

There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.

— Peter Reading

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

— John Green

“Thomas Mann that “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Alexandra Johnson

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

— Michael Arrington

Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first.

— Fiona Barton

“Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.”

— Amy Joy

“I love to read books! There are so many authors that I think are really fun to read.”

— Tom Angleberger