Writer Quotes · Page 446

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

— Mary Downing Hahn

“After I read a good book I have a hard time coping with reality.”

— Anonymous

“An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!”

— Johanna Oznowicz

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

— John Burnside

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Life is like a Book.Don't try to open my book if you are not going to read it

— Sushan Sharma

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

— Stephen King

It's great to read something that's both enjoyable and porvdies pragmatisdc solutions.

— Bobbie

I feel that the power that storytelling has to change people, to bring them together, to have that cathartic sort of experience,…

— Karla Souza

“My reviews of the above books appear in my series, A Literary Cavalcade. Reviews are listed alphabetically by author across the six…

— Robert A. Parker

One of the biggest drawbacks of our industry is that we haven't nurtured our writers for years. Now, we realise we need…

— Kabir Khan

The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.

— Thomas Hauser

If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.

— Viv Albertine

Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“The return of the Independent Bookstore is the answer to the stack 'em high, sell 'em cheap megastores.”

— Kambiz Mostofizadeh

“When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier.…

— Edward Abbey

“If your novel seems to be dragging, one of the first places to look is at the heart of your lead character.…

— Anonymous

I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount…

— Kem Nunn

I can certainly be surprised by turns a story takes, but usually not once I'm actually in the writing/drawing stage. In the…

— Jessica Abel

The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as…

— Robert Hughes

You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. You have to write…

— Rick Riordan

Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we…

— Maureen Howard

Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and…

— David Malouf

Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction…

— Jami Attenberg

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

— Fran Lebowitz

“No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!”

— Chrys Fey

“A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.”

— Chris Brady

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

— Amy Tan

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

— Dorothy Parker

“Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?”

— Gail Giles

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

— Nicholson Baker

“Wow. Death by books. That would have been some way to go.”

— Beth Reekles

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

— Nuala O'Faolain

“Imagine, create, think beyond the limits. Then write.”

— Kimberly Loskov

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

— Vera Farmiga

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

— Henry David Thoreau

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

“The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page' St. Augustine of Hippo”

— Monica Joseph

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

— Marcel Theroux

I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

— Sarah Barthel