Writer Quotes · Page 452

“If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading.”

— Malcolm X

“The words of wisdom for today: Do not read anything that sucks!”

— Toba Beta

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

— Ronald Reagan

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

— Dodie Smith

“I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success.”

— E.W. Hornung

“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

— Marilynne Robinson

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

— John Rhys-Davies

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

— Don Henley

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically…

— Russell Hoban

“It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books…

— Russell Banks

I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw…

— Angelina Jolie

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

— Natalie Goldberg

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe…

— C. S. Lewis

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding…

— Patricia Briggs

“Lemat's agent says to him: y duty to you, first and foremost, is make sure you have a career, a prosperous one.…

— Henry Mosquera

“[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the…

— Linda Sue Park

“Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There…

— Edith Wharton

“The name of the book was The Big Board. He got a few paragraphs into it, and then he realized that he…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but…

— David Levithan

“Another mistake is presenting too much background information, and doing so in the first few pages. Writers should begin their stories with…

— Evan Marshall

“You are one of us, one of those who knows without knowing, and one who will live and die in dreams that…

— Mary-Jean Harris

People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.

— Nikki Gemmell

“No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.”

— Alamvusha

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

— Joseph Addison

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

— Sue Grafton

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

— John Fletcher

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

— Jonathan Coe

“Don't you ever do anything other than read?" said Chaol.”

— Sarah J. Maas

A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.

— Betty Hill

If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

— Tomi Adeyemi

“All good people read good books. Now your conscience is clear. - Twist In My Sobriety - Song Lyrics”

— Tanita Tikaram

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

— Roald Dahl

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.

— George Murray

“The man who does not read has no advantage over a man who cannot read” – Mark Twain”

— Isaac Fox

I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.

— John Grisham

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

— Larry Niven

“... it is worth remembering that the act of writing has its own magic.”

— Jonathan Oliver