Writer Quotes · Page 415

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

— Nate Berkus

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

— Anonymous

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

— Anonymous

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Beat up old books still have hope and life in their pages." :) :)”

— Hanna Gritton

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

— Michael McKean

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

— Al Alvarez

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

— Ernest Gaines

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

— Clifford Geertz

If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what…

— Truman Capote

“I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make…

— Alan W. Harris

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

— Brent Weeks

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

— Etgar Keret

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They…

— George Saunders

“People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart women as witches. Mankind has not…

— Anna Bayes

Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking…

— Walter Kirn

“An opportunity lost may have motivated us to find a satisfying alternative. Adversity or suffering may have taught us certain important skills.…

— Nan Merrick Phifer

I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder…

— Leo Lionni

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing…

— Eric Brown

I never write with any kind of message, and I don't think that this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger' has a message in the…

— Rebecca Stead

“My definition of a good book is one that you would read for pleasure despite having no prior interest in the subject.…

— Philip Gourevitch

Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that…

— Alexander Chee

“Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.”

— T.R. Wallace

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

— Sigmund Freud

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

— Megan Whalen Turner

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

— Diana Gabaldon

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

— Anonymous

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

— Tom Bissell

“She kept her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.”

— Karen Robards

“My library was where I liked to relax because reading had always been my escape.”

— L.P. Dover

“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.”

— Oliver Markus

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

— Diana Wynne Jones

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

— Jill Abramson

When I hear a story, I think about it from the point of view of the audience.

— Catherine Tresa

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

— Mitch Albom

I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.

— Zoe Sugg