Writer Quotes · Page 391

When I write, it's almost like it really sets in my brain. I don't ever go back and read it.

— Jon Rahm

“reading has as many functions as the human body, and... not all of them are cerebral.”

— Anna Quindlen

“No better way to avoid making a decision than burying yourself in a big fat book.” (p. 105).”

— Elizabeth Bard

I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites.

— Brent Faiyaz

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

— Alice McDermott

“Most people weren’t aware that books chose us, at the time when we needed them most.”

— Rebecca Raisin

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

— India Arie

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

— Roberto Bolano

My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing.

— Bret Stephens

“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn…

— Greg Graffin

“If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.”

— Terry Eagleton

“That would make it the fifth time since I'd started working at the university that I'd thrown someone out of one of…

— Samantha Young

Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the…

— Robert Silverberg

I believe the better I can write on my own, the better I can be of service in a co-write. The big…

— Charlie Worsham

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away,…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“desire to know more. I hope my novel accomplishes this, and I highly recommend the following books that I found very useful:…

— Melanie Benjamin

“She read a great deal - there was really nothing for her to do when I was gone but read and sew…

— Anonymous

I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The…

— Ben Hecht

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title…

— Robert Musil

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

— Shirley Jackson

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

— Albert Camus

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

— Andrea Barrett

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

— Trey Anastasio

I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

— Lena Dunham

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

— Regis Debray

“I need a job and I want to be a paperback writer...”

— The Beatles

“a book like this. I wish I had access to such a source”

— Anonymous

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

— Romain Rolland

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

— Paul Auster

“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”

— David Foster Wallace

I love reading. I've had the chance to meet some of my favorite authors, that's been really cool.

— Harrison Barnes

“I am full of madness, i can't hide my fire I burn for the things i love, my soul will never retire.”

— Nikki Rowe

In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.

— Eric Metaxas

It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

— Agatha Christie