Writer Quotes · Page 432

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

— Jeanette Winterson

Reading and exercising are two things in life that are not necessary.

— Thundercat

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

— Mark Twain

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

— Francois Truffaut

“Each time someone dies, a library burns by John Lennon "the Sky is everywhere”

— Jandy Nelson

“When life tries to stop you from writing, be relentless!”

— Honoree Corder

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

— John Hodgman

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea…

— Daniel Handler

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with…

— Roald Dahl

“Reading is not the same as living, Cass, and you need to live,” she says and throws the apple core into a…

— G. Bailey

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and…

— John Hersey

“I don't believe there are readers and non-readers; I believe there are those who've found the right books and those who haven't--yet!”

— C.C. Payne

It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as…

— Joshua Mohr

“The greatest gratification I make while writing is that unique possibility of living my own adventures”

— MBarreto Condado

“Or what if he's weeping to himself in a lonely apartment somewhere, where his family never visits him because Grandpa Penumbra is…

— Robin Sloan

“The Librarian swung on. It was slow progress, because there were things he wasn't keen on meeting. Creatures evolved to fill every…

— Terry Pratchett

“Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside-and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that…

— Camron Wright

And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even…

— T.A. Barron

“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or…

— Mark Twain

“Vladimir Nabokov and George Orwell had quite different gifts, and their self-images were quite different. But, I shall argue, their accomplishment was…

— Richard M. Rorty

You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to…

— John Dufresne

To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is…

— Edward Augustus Freeman

When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most…

— Daniel Quinn

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

— Sara Sheridan

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

— George Murray

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

— Marsilio Ficino

Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know.

— Lloyd Alexander

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.”

— Patricia Engel

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

— Annie Dillard

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

— Frank Zappa

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

— Grant Heslov

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

— Michael Swanwick

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

— Rosemary Mahoney

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

— Anne Michaels

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

— Norton Juster

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

— E. B. White