Writer Quotes · Page 433

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

— Mencius

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.”

— Marcel Proust

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks

'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.

— Dean Devlin

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

— Winston Churchill

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

— Kate DiCamillo

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

— James Russell Lowell

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

— Tony Gilroy

“Books were the one way Clara could wander, so she was more than happy to spend her morning with the Black Knight…

— Kathleen O'Dell

“But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long…

— J. Limbu

Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the…

— Katherine Paterson

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility…

— David Hayden

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

— Nicholas Sparks

Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice…

— Jo-Ann Mapson

Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books,…

— Ken Liu

You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal…

— John Hodgman

Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language,…

— David Crystal

“The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,…

— Umberto Eco

“Good libraries hold several millions of books: even if we read a book a day, we would read only 365 a year,…

— Umberto Eco

“I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time…

— Sarah Harrison

To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible,…

— Diablo Cody

“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a…

— Umberto Eco

Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to…

— Michael K. Williams

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

— Horace Walpole

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

— Dennis Cooper

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

— Glenn Howerton

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

— Neil Gaiman

“There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.”

— Graham Greene

The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

— Robert Benchley

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

— Anita Brookner

Just start writing and you'll find what you want to say.

— Kurt Braunohler

“Your pen must not only create words, it must carve a story into something touching human or beyond.”

— Nyhterides

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

— Nicolas Chamfort

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

— Betty Smith

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

— Anthony Powell

The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.

— Laura Lippman

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

— A. S. Byatt

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

— Markus Zusak