Writer Quotes · Page 435

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

— Bill Watterson

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

— Desiderius Erasmus

“Reading is dangerous, because the more you read, the more you realise how little you know.”

— S.E. SEVER

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

— Bill Moyers

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal

Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'

— Anthony Minghella

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

— Stephen Fry

Turning the pages of a favourite book creates a very special bond with our grandchildren, but it's not just an indulgent pleasure.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it…

— Albert Murray

“Donation is not always about money. It's about helping someone in anyway. For an author, it's great help if someone read his…

— Prakash Vir Sharma

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story,…

— Rebecca Stead

“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re…

— George Saunders

I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing…

— Jay-Z

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out…

— George Saunders

What to do Before Your Book Launch is the new invaluable tool for writers. There is so much to know and now…

— Julie Klam

The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath'…

— Richard Corliss

I don't know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it.…

— Scott Turow

My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around…

— Richard Grossman

“Reading. I can get lost in a world and spend days there. Besides, reading a book gives me a goal. It's that…

— C.M. Stunich

Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let…

— Matt Fraction

There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their…

— Sara Paretsky

“I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in…

— Jennifer Haigh

People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly…

— Philip K. Dick

After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

— Jonathan Lethem

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur

“If one were happy, then one might stay in with a book, say, and not go out hunting for fun”

— Kathleen Rooney

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

— John Turturro

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

— Anonymous

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

— Guy Kawasaki

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

— Hallie Ephron

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

— Indira Gandhi

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

— Neil Patrick Harris

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

— Marian Wright Edelman

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

— Arundhati Roy

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

— James Welch