Writer Quotes · Page 382

It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching.

— Lady Amelia Windsor

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

— E. L. Doctorow

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

— Terry Pratchett

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.

— Sue Townsend

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

— John Hodgman

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

— Jan Garbarek

“I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Everything I write, I read aloud. It has to sound a certain way and look a certain way on page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in…

— Amitava Kumar

Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in…

— Susan Minot

“Live a while in these books, learn from them what seems to you worth learning, but above all, love them.”

— Ranier Maria Rilke

“I just enjoyed Brother Star Sister Moon by Mary Cheatam. What a good one to read with your grandkids! On Audible.”

— Mary Cheatam

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

— Sven Birkerts

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and…

— Asne Seierstad

Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why…

— Anthony Browne

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing…

— Mark Twain

Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts…

— Mindy Kaling

“I write because it’s a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don’t understand. The act of…

— Jodi Picoult

It's not that, living in Pakistan, I feel an enormous constraint on how I can write and what I can say; rather,…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Some of the books the Ministry’s confiscated — Dad’s told me — there was one that burned your eyes out. And everyone…

— J.K. Rowling

I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down…

— Robert Asprin

I tend to get lonely a lot. That is probably why I try to write about different things when I am alone.…

— Yunho

Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd…

— Richard Riordan

If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off…

— Danielle Steel

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

— Lydia Davis

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

— Gerald Clarke

“Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty”

— Cucuk Espe

“Impossibly (A Dante’s Nine MC Novel) by Colleen Masters.”

— Anonymous

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

— Deb Caletti

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

— Sammy Hagar

I can't write about someone who is unlike me in all senses-physically, emotionally and socially.

— Vetrimaaran

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

— Efim Bogoljubov

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

— Robert Jordan

One day I'll bring a biography of my life out and that will be the biggest joke I'll ever tell.

— James Buckley

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

— Helen Exley

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

— Andre Maurois

“Keep writing for writing is sustenance for the soul.”

— Christopher Broom

The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.

— Joan Didion