Writer Quotes · Page 457

When I love a book, I really love a book. You don't get that very often.

— Nina Jacobson

I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something.

— Petra Collins

What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

— Jami Attenberg

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

— Marva Collins

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

— William Howard Taft

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

— Hisaye Yamamoto

Our main purpose of writing is so we don't feel alone and that others don't feel alone.

— Stephanie Land

I get to be creative and to write: two of my favorite things.

— Louise Roe

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

— Edith Wharton

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from…

— Truman Capote

“I smile as I walk toward her and nearly trip on a stack of haphazardly organized books. Why don't I eve put…

— Defiance by C.J. Redwine Logan

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of…

— William Winwood Reade

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think,…

— David Bowker

“Books and knowledge don’t make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the…

— Malorie Blackman

“To read books seriously is to be staggered by the knowledge of how many more books will remain beyond your ken. It’s…

— James Falllows

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

— Neil Gaiman

“Oh literature is a wonderful thing, Varenka, a very wonderful thing: I discovered that from being with those people the day before…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books…

— Kevin J. Anderson

“I had often seen my master and Dick employed in reading; and I had a great curiosity to talk to the books,…

— Olaudah Equianom

My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months,…

— Gustave Flaubert

All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of…

— Janet Frame

Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not,…

— Robert Masello

“We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we…

— Pat Walsh

It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

— Paul Simon

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

— Robert Ben Garant

“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.”

— Carlos María Domínguez

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

“Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.”

— Scott Westerfeld

“Read a book then forget the names of characters in it except lead character.”

— Hibis

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

— Paul Bowles

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

— Margaret Atwood

“A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

— Malcolm X

“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”

— George Gissing

I keep finding good stories so I don't see a reason not to work.

— Anubhav Sinha

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

— Agatha Christie

What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.

— Jenny Offill

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

— Stef Penney