Writer Quotes · Page 408

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

— John Boyne

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

— Lizz Winstead

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

— Tim O'Reilly

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

— John W. Campbell

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

— Mason Cooley

“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for…

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and…

— Ashwin Sanghi

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and…

— Cornelia Funke

I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead, if you want…

— Clint Bowyer

I just preach the importance of reading, the importance of learning and challenging yourself to be the best you can be in…

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.”

— E.M. Forster

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because…

— Nick Tosches

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything…

— Oscar Wilde

Whenever it feels good to write, I just am so relieved, and that is the one revelation every time. I thank God…

— Gracie Abrams

“The hours tick by as I lie in bed. Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to…

— Ashley Earley

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly…

— Thomas Keneally

“And, you see, the little boy’s father was working hard to make the Negroes sweat on the peanut plantation, and he thought…

— Michèle Audin

And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of…

— Matt Haig

“The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts,…

— Josh Hanagarne

The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the…

— Neil Postman

In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at…

— Phillip Lopate

“distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)”

— Seneca

“The best thing about being a writer is the joy of creating a story that’s never been told before.”

— Rae

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

— Roman Coppola

That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well.

— Amos Oz

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

— Leigh Michaels

If I'm not writing a thing, depression might be looming.

— Sarah Manguso

I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

— Adriana Trigiani

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

— Denis Johnson

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

— Taiye Selasi

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

— Andre Gide

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

— Virginia Woolf

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

— Eugene Field

“She handles the books tenderly, a glow of utter devotion on here face.”

— Kim Church

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

— Jose Saramago

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

— Henry David Thoreau