Writer Quotes · Page 460

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

— Hope Davis

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

— D. H. Lawrence

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

— R. Kelly

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

— Mark Twain

Good books are like friends which are deep and meaningful and you love to spend time with them.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

— Howard Hawks

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

— Kevin Dillon

I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer.

— Varun Grover

The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to…

— Davy Rothbart

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an…

— Edward Gorey

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

— Barbara Kingsolver

If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out…

— Sarah Silverman

“there is the smell, too, of course -- the reassuring smell of paper, new paper, soft old paper, recalling each person to…

— Deborah Meyler

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost…

— Helene Hanff

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages…

— Frank Oz

The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't…

— Adam Frank

I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet…

— Marty Nemko

If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular…

— Joshua Foer

“In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery.…

— Siri Hustvedt

I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and…

— Stephen King

I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false…

— Carlos Santana

“If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity…

— Herman Melville

“There’s nothing more important than literary merit, and that’s why I not only created an award—the Julius Caesar Author of the Year…

— Jarod Kintz

I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.

— David Grann

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

— Drew Goddard

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

— Taiye Selasi

“Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

— Meg Rosoff

If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'

— Mariella Frostrup

What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.

— Amitava Kumar

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

— Thea Sharrock

It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.

— Kit Williamson

“I held it over my heart. Mrs. Worth smiled. "That's where a book should be carried.”

— Joan Bauer

If you're going to write about your life, you must write about your life.

— Rita Moreno

“She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”

— Annie Dillard

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

— Joan Didion

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Someone who reads a lot is as powerful as a corps, but more than that he has power of words”

— Asphosam