Writer Quotes · Page 430

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

— Elizabeth Berg

What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

— Chinua Achebe

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

“Since I have become a slave of writing, the pleasure of reading has ended for me.”

— Italo Calvino

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

— Prue Leith

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

— Julian Barnes

“Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls -- like comfort food without the calories.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“Mm, Willa Cather. A brilliant author. And this is her best, hands down. It's the one she was meant to write.”

— M. Pierce

Dont write or post d things if u dont believe d shit..coz its lyk writing d bible or a holybook..while watching porn

— Raveen

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to…

— Douglas William Jerrold

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the…

— Mary Oliver

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be…

— Jens Lekman

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as…

— Ernest Hemingway

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and…

— Josh Radnor

Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a…

— Matt Haig

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if…

— V. S. Naipaul

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total…

— Nigel Kneale

“Creation Here is an exercise that will assist you in your Deliberate Creating: Take three separate pieces of paper, and at the…

— Esther Hicks

What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately…

— Italo Calvino

I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of…

— Kate DiCamillo

A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find…

— Junot Diaz

Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And…

— Ray Bradbury

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

— Beverly Cleary

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

— Tom Stoppard

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

— Jill Lepore

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

— George W. Bush

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

— John M. Ford

“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”

— D.E.M. Emrys

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

— Donald Miller

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Just ask Ray Bradbury.”

— Kami Garcia

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

— Miguel Syjuco

Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.

— Amitava Kumar

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

— Larry David

“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.”

— Catherine Carrigan

“The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.”

— Khaled Talib

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

— Mercedes Ruehl

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

— James Russell Lowell