Writer Quotes · Page 509

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.—George Bernard Shaw”

— Jan Karon

“The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.”

— Blaise Pascal

“I am still more or less sane because of my evening reading.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“Tricky devils, these novelists. The ink gets into their heads.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

— Moshe Safdie

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

— Richard Powers

“Life is wonderful when you're the one to write it.”

— Coco J. Ginger

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.…

— Mary Mouser

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you…

— Don Winslow

“When a book ends, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the world. It's a gift from you to the…

— Jennifer Probst

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human.…

— Jon Stewart

Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

— Hannah More

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

— Samuel Barber

I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice,…

— Marjorie Liu

I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.

— Allison Silverman

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a…

— Maurice Sendak

'Quantum of Solace' was a bit of a different circumstance than a lot of my other films because you're stepping into a…

— Marc Forster

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon…

— Fay Weldon

“And like all the better professions, editing is something of an art, too, if it’s done well, and something of a mystery…

— Michael Korda

I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go…

— Kurt Sutter

The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to…

— William Saroyan

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles…

— Aldous Huxley

Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to…

— Laini Taylor

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading.”

— Betty Smith

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

— Alistair MacLeod

“and who writes, he says, because he finds it easier than talking.”

— John J. Winters

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

— Helen Exley

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

— Andre Maurois

“Keep writing for writing is sustenance for the soul.”

— Christopher Broom

The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.

— Joan Didion

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

— Efim Bogoljubov

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

— Robert Jordan

One day I'll bring a biography of my life out and that will be the biggest joke I'll ever tell.

— James Buckley

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

— Deb Caletti

“Impossibly (A Dante’s Nine MC Novel) by Colleen Masters.”

— Anonymous

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

— Sammy Hagar

I can't write about someone who is unlike me in all senses-physically, emotionally and socially.

— Vetrimaaran

“Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty”

— Cucuk Espe