Writer Quotes · Page 467

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Writing a book should be the best way to break into someone's house.”

— Krishna

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

— Sue Townsend

The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.

— Tiffany Darwish

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

— Jodie Foster

No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different.

— Celeste Ng

“One of the great books of our time. I should know; I wrote it." (apocryphal)”

— Tim Roux

“Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level.”

— Ksenia Anske

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that.…

— Adam Scott

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and…

— Peter Hedges

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

— David Lodge

[Writing] is harder than you think. You'll be rejected often. If you do it for money, you'll quit. Love it or don't…

— Paul S. Kemp

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it.…

— Rick Moody

Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you…

— Douglas Coupland

...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my…

— Anonymous

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was…

— Ann Patchett

“We are not told [why the girl looks at the floor] – at least not explicitly. Where other writers of the same…

— into the willd

It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of…

— Skip Horack

When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car…

— Russell Simmons

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away…

— Jennifer Egan

“... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.”

— Neil Postman

I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

— Dan Brown

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page or just closing the book.

— Anonymous

“The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.”

— St Augustine

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

— Anna Todd

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

— Mason Cooley

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

— Robert Cormier

“She knew where she stood, when she stood among books.”

— M.R. Graham

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

— James Franco

“The easiest part of the writing process is whichever part I’m not currently doing.”

— Scott Tracey

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

— Miljenko Jergovic

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

— Jan Neruda

If the writing is good, I'm there. If it's something I've never done before, I'm up for that, too.

— W. Earl Brown

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

— Zadie Smith

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

— Mason Cooley