Writer Quotes · Page 411

“Reading is a sojourn that takes you round the world without having to move a feet.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

— Louis L'Amour

“As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.”

— David S.E. Zapanta

Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.

— Christine Sneed

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

— Hugh Leonard

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

— John Grisham

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

— Youth Lagoon

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which…

— Norbet Platt

I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the…

— David Byrne

I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this…

— Peter Handke

“And I think: I could do this. Fuck writing a book about a fat girl and a dragon. I could be a…

— Caitlin Moran

I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is…

— Robert Creeley

The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something…

— Prince De Ligne

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are…

— Isabel Allende

“Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had…

— John Irving

But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down.…

— Josh Radnor

There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To…

— Per Petterson

“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and…

— Carl Sagan

One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to…

— John Green

The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced…

— Steve Donoghue

You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is…

— Kamala Harris

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

— Patrick Modiano

“As much as I hate to admit it, books have limitations. Over”

— Daisy Hernandez

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.

— Stephen Chbosky

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

— Shonda Rhimes

“Any book thoughtfully read sharpens the mind and improves on and individual's professional potential.”

— James F. Amos

Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand

— Michael Hyatt

“...'good writing' means compelling ideas clothed in words.”

— Betsey Lerner

Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.

— Valerie Jarrett

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

— Salvatore Scibona

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

— Edward Gibbon

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.

— Andrew Scott

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

— Bei Dao

“Eli Lazaroff stepped into the arena, looking more like a librarian than a warrior.”

— Bella Forrest

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I'm excited to go study and read and immerse myself in something.

— Sharon Van Etten