Writer Quotes · Page 444

“Reading Is To The Mind What Exercis Is To The Body .”

— Jospeh Addison

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

— Diablo Cody

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

— Hisham Matar

“Books have a curious effect on those with certain predispositions to fall into obsession.”

— Kane X. Faucher

It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.

— Ace Young

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint

— John Stuart Mill

“Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Digital distribution has widened the reading world.”

— Sara Sheridan

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough…

— Ali Smith

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

— Henry David Thoreau

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as…

— Ruskin Bond

There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world…

— Michael Longley

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes.…

— Mark Haddon

Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like…

— Uzodinma Iweala

The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his…

— Andre Alexis

Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a…

— James Patterson

“Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost.…

— Anonymous

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.'…

— J. G. Ballard

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail;…

— John Ruskin

The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Some people will love my books, some people will hate them, and others will regard them with odd curiosity. Who do I…

— Ella Dominguez

“Anyway, in the interim since I turned writer—a good thirty years—I have hobnobbed with all varieties of man, from the highest to…

— Henry Miller

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

— Mary Roach

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

— Seamus Heaney

Style matters, but the real force of writing is ideas, not style.

— Douglas Brunt

Some days writing flows like a stream and there are times I get stuck.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

“Reading shows us how to be better human beings, not just successful worker bees.”

— Donalyn Miller

To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.

— Amity Gaige

“Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.”

— A.E. Croft

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

— Gertrude Atherton

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

— Isabel Allende

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

— David Guterson

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.

— Vivian Gornick

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.

— Regina Spektor

“I worked and now I can write, Experience is everything.”

— Andrew M. Gallagher

“Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.”

— Phyllis Theroux

“They dip their pens in our hearts and think they are inspired.”

— Kahlil Gibran

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

— Anne Frank