Writer Quotes · Page 418

I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays.

— Eden Robinson

“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,”

— Neil Postman

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

— John Green

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

— Matthew Specktor

Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

— Peter S. Prescott

I do know great books help shape who I am and how I look at life.

— Mat Kearney

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

— Mark Millar

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

— Enoch Powell

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if…

— C. S. Lewis

It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the…

— Frank McCourt

“So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you…

— Ray Bradbury

Every day, no matter how tired my father was, he'd put me in the car and drive me to Schaumburg Public Library,…

— Reshma Saujani

In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine,…

— Aravind Adiga

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing…

— Janet Fitch

“I, who am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement, make this mark, waiting for some…

— Virginia Woolf

That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They…

— Anonymous

I've been slightly obsessed with paper and notebooks. Among my most precious possessions is a small light-blue, breviary-sized volume - four-and-a-half inches…

— Michael Dirda

“Mom taught me not to look away from the worst but to believe that we can all do better. She never wavered…

— Will Schwalbe

You know how some people are upwardly mobile? I'm sort of downwardly mobile in the publishing world, because of my sales figures…

— Lynne Tillman

You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at…

— T.C. Boyle

“By educating me at home, my parents were able to give me individualized attention without the usual distractions that kids in regular…

— Colin Nissan

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint…

— Ayelet Waldman

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

— Mortimer Adler

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

— Thomas Carlyle

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

— Stephen J. Dubner

I don't tend to re-read things, but never say never.

— Phoebe Fox

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

— Henry Channon

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

— Marilyn Hacker

“Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.”

— Joe Hill

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

— Erin Gruwell

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

— Jimmy Breslin

“As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”

— Stephen Colbert

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

— Ethel Wilson

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

— Anonymous

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

— Frances McDormand

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

— Kate Nash

I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just good at it.

— Benny the Butcher

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

— China Mieville