Writer Quotes · Page 481

“Love when you open up your kindle and find the next book in series you forgot was coming <3”

— Tara Ahrendt

“I will read just about any book at least once! No matter what genre, I just love to read!”

— Traci Wilcox

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

— Eric Idle

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

— Gustave Flaubert

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

— Joan Bauer

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what…

— Junot Diaz

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

— David Means

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

— Katherine Anne Porter

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that…

— Seamus Heaney

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every…

— Truman Capote

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you…

— Paul Krugman

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all…

— Ken Scott

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust,…

— Shannon Hale

I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in…

— Theodora Goss

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not…

— Alfred Bertram Guthrie

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And…

— Alice Munro

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our…

— Jean Baudrillard

“Poppy used to share the room with her older sister, and piles of he sister's outgrown clothes still remained spread out in…

— Holly Black

No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted…

— Lynda Barry

I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I…

— Amish Tripathi

Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection but in the plight…

— Philip Roth

Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me…

— Chris Van Allsburg

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

— Paris Hilton

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

“Breadwinning and the art of writing must be kept absolutely apart.”

— Anonymous

“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.”

— Stefanos Livos

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

— Anna Sui

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

— Bob Dylan

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

— Henry L. Stimson

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

— Henry Channon

I don't tend to re-read things, but never say never.

— Phoebe Fox

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

— Thomas Carlyle

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

— Stephen J. Dubner

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

— Mortimer Adler

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

— Mark Millar

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

— Enoch Powell

I do know great books help shape who I am and how I look at life.

— Mat Kearney