Writer Quotes · Page 420

“If I could choose I would rather be happy than write.”

— Jean Rhys

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

— Eloisa James

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

— Anonymous

“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.”

— robert m drake

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

— Harlan Coben

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

— David Almond

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was…

— Edward Abbey

“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it…

— Ali Smith

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may…

— Cyril Connolly

I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must…

— Linda Lael Miller

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was…

— Janet Evanovich

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I…

— Jonathan Franzen

“I think people who create and write, it actually does flow – just flows from into their head, into their hand, and…

— Paul McCartney

I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I'm much more willing to buy a novel electronically by someone I don't know. Because if halfway through I think, I don't…

— Susan Orlean

Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate…

— David Starkey

“All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Books have given me great stores of happiness, but if I am honest with myself I can see they have also taken…

— Kyo Maclear

“I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be…

— Sophie Divry

“Find a quiet place, and just read. If you’re reading an ebook, clear away everything else but your ebook reader. Then you…

— Leo Babauta

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when…

— Carol Windley

“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.”

— Ruth Ozeki

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading…

— Isaac

“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise...”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.”

— Oliver Markus

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

— Henry L. Stimson

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

— Bob Dylan

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

— Anna Sui

“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.”

— Stefanos Livos

“Breadwinning and the art of writing must be kept absolutely apart.”

— Anonymous

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

— Paris Hilton

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

— David Means

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what…

— Junot Diaz

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

— Gustave Flaubert