Writer Quotes · Page 478

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

— Randy Pausch

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

— Virginia Woolf

I want to write a story for people where they finish it, and it sticks with them.

— Sylvia Day

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

— Susan Sontag

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My quest has always been to get my story to the rest o' the people.

— Tech N9ne

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

— Charles Baxter

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

— Janet Evanovich

Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It’s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful,…

— Tim Wynne-Jones

You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the…

— F. Sionil Jose

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

— Syd Barrett

“You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?”

— Ray Bradbury

“…secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made…

— Kathleen Tessaro

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue…

— Julianna Baggott

Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when…

— George Saunders

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew…

— Andrew Davies

Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how…

— Bill Ayers

If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“Some books are like chewing gum. They have just enough flavour to sate you for an hour or so. Others are like…

— Xio Axelrod

I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before…

— Stephen King

“As a writer, you often feel invisible. No one is waiting for what you are writing; life goes on as you sit…

— James Morris

I spend months, sometimes years, doing what I call dreamtime, weaving it together inside my head. But when I actually feel that…

— Michael Morpurgo

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are…

— Whitley Strieber

The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people…

— Graham Linehan

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

— C. S. Forester

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

— Candace Bushnell

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

— John Millington Synge

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

— Henny Youngman

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

— F. H. Bradley

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

— Anonymous

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Beat up old books still have hope and life in their pages." :) :)”

— Hanna Gritton

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

— Anonymous

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

— Nate Berkus

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

— Paul Auster

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

— Michael Morpurgo

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

— Mark Kurlansky