Writer Quotes · Page 375

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

— Christopher Morley

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

— Carl Hiaasen

“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.”

— Amit Kalantri

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

— Kellan Lutz

“If we know the books located at the bedside, we know much about the man.”

— Douglas L. Callister

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.

— Molly Keane

I do like Pat Conroy, and 'The Great Santini' is an iconic book.

— Douglas Brunt

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

— John Lennon

I would love to continue to tell stories that are constructive to our society; I would love to continue to portray characters…

— Kiana Madeira

...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden…

— Anonymous

“Two people at a cocktail party. One turns to the other and says: "I'm writing a novel." The other replies, "Neither am…

— Private Eye

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something…

— Patrick deWitt

What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is…

— Derek Walcott

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in…

— Margaret Wise Brown

“Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need…

— Erica Jong

“peace until the Schleswig-Holstein question was definitely settled. STRASBOURG, October 14—Among the priceless volumes destroyed in the library here, was”

— Various

Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it…

— William Hughes Mearns

“These books...," she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two…

— Deborah Meyler

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me…

— Melanie Martinez

People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a…

— David McCullough

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after…

— Ernest Hemingway

All writers know in advance that they are not going be able to reproduce in its wonderful fullness the thing that's in…

— Mary Jo Salter

For the last few years, I've enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I've grown up,…

— Himesh Patel

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“...books provided much-needed ballast - something we both craved, amid the chaos and upheaval...”

— Will Schwalbe

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

— Douglas Adams

Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

“Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you’re not alone.”

— Paula Gruben

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

— Scott Turow

Books are fun and your genre can help describe you love who you are and respect the title.

— BBL

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

— John Grisham

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

— Sarah Dessen

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

— Kevin Henkes

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.

— Helen Oyeyemi

“It's not about how much you read, but, how much you work what you read.”

— Unverified

I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.

— A. B. Yehoshua

“Bibliomancy: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.”

— Marilyn Johnson

“Never write with my mind but write with your hearts!”

— Jessica Fairweather

I tell stories about the people around me, I tell stories about me. I tell stories about my hood.

— Goldlink