Writer Quotes · Page 434

“No matter how valuable these books, it seems a bit sad to let them go unread,”

— Isuna Hasekura

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

— Edward Hirsch

“Books will give you new ideas to fly and books can be find in the libraries”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

— Dorothea Brande

“My priority as a writer is that my reader's entertainment comes first, second, and last.”

— B.J. Kibble

A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.

— Dara Wier

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement...

— Virginia Woolf

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry”

— Umberto Eco

“By reading, we just get informed. Knowledge is much more divine.. a lot more sacred. Knowledge is a blessing.”

— Gurnam Singh Sodhi

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I…

— Judy Blume

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I,…

— Samuel Beckett

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and…

— Pearl S. Buck

I've always written at night - my working day for years was around 9pm to 2am - though I do keep more…

— Max Richter

“If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken…

— Paul Graham

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's…

— Rose Tremain

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core…

— William Shatner

When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the…

— Maria Semple

I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique…

— Scott Lynch

“They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do…

— Leonardo Da Vinci Reproductions

“Benjamin glanced at his eager driver. “The children’s author Roald Dahl said of Romanée-Conti: ‘Sense for me this perfume! Breathe this bouquet!…

— Jean-Pierre Alaux

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive…

— Harold Bloom

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To…

— Enid Bagnold

As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm…

— Graham Swift

“Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate…

— Bill Watterson

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

— Anonymous

“It pained Emily to her librarian’s soul to see books mistreated like this.”

— Deborah Harkness

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books.

— Meg Rosoff

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber

I've tried everywhere, but my garden shed is the most effective place to write.

— Lee Mack

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

— Michael Welch

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

— Mason Cooley

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

— Georges Simenon

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

— Jerry Cantrell

“Van Houten, I'm a good person but a shitty writer. you're a shitty person but a good writer.”

— John Green

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

— Jim Rash

“If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.”

— Maggie Osborne

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

— Steve Vai

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

— Grace Paley

“A sage is a library whose bookshelves are in his soul.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Writing is the skillful expression of feelings through the vehicle of words”

— Christian Michael