Writer Quotes · Page 514

Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

— Miles Teller

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

— Les Back

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

— Nick Hornby

“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

— Richard Russo

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

— Augusten Burroughs

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

— Jerome Lawrence

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

— Betty MacDonald

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism.…

— Anonymous

reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“Material Witness - book 1 (**Named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2012) Nothing But Trouble (Contemporary Western Romance)”

— Lisa Mondello

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how…

— Jose Saramago

“May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place…

— Anamika Mishra

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is…

— Roald Dahl

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

— Herman Wouk

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult…

— Rick Moody

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas…

— Jonathan Nolan

I thought a book on miracles might be a great idea, but just because it's a great idea doesn't mean I'm supposed…

— Eric Metaxas

Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their…

— Richard Bach

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for…

— Evelyn Waugh

Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll…

— Mameve Medwed

If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's…

— Brian Helgeland

“I cannot have a sufficiency of books. Indeed, I have more than I should... Books give utter delight: they talk with us...…

— Francesco Petrarca

“I run my fingers down the spines of old books and ancient tales. I smell the ink and feel the pages as…

— Liz Newman

Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

— Edna Ferber

“Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.”

— Elizabeth Graver

If I set out to write 'War And Peace' or 'A Suitable Boy,' I'd be miserable.

— Ruskin Bond

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

— Michel Faber

“We don’t want to be stuck on the train with nothing to read.”

— Genevieve Cogman

The book Since the publication of my autobiography which was featured till today are moist

— Mak_786

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

— John Updike

I'm one of those people that believes you should start writing before you think you're ready.

— Joseph J. Ellis

“You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally.”

— Dennis Lehane

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

— Nellie L. McClung

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

— Meryl Streep

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

— Caroline B. Cooney

It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head.

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

“now i can safely claim the pages within these walls are more than my allies; they are my own”

— Hanna Abi Akl

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

— Anonymous

Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

— Scott Cunningham