Writer Quotes · Page 52

“There's a book in you that only you can write.”

— Chris Baty

“Who needs electronics when you have books?”

— Young-Joon Choi

“You can only write well ,what you have lived.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I need to experience books, not just read them.”

— Lauren Morrill

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

— Elia Kazan

“I love the books by Brenda Minton”

— Brenda Minton

“A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.”

— Stefanos Livos

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

— Anonymous

The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

— Fred Barnes

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

— Margaret Atwood

“You know it's desperate," she said. "Shane is going to the library. ”

— Rachel Caine

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

— Richard Russo

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

— Frank Sinatra

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

— John Milton

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

— Bob Schieffer

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

— Markus Zusak

Terrific! A successful blend of genres, complex and fascinating characters, and loads of suspense make 24 Bones a must-read.

— Nate Kenyon

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

— Clarence Darrow

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but…

— David Frum

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful.”

— Douglas Bond

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of…

— Scott Pruitt

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

— Katherine Rundell

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false…

— Marlon James

Writing with a partner is, in some ways, an easy but odd process. Two people come into a room and look to…

— Barry Levinson

“The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet…

— Samuel Johnson

To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the…

— Cynthia Ozick

After my debut didn't go very well with Holt, I needed to be in a healthier head space. I was happy to…

— Paul G. Tremblay

I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who…

— George R. R. Martin

“My advice for aspiring writers is simply this: NEVER GIVE UP. Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot achieve your…

— Rachel Nicole Wagner

“A library is more than a brick and mortar building filled with delicious books. It is also a community of people who…

— ALA

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it…

— Sampha

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

— Anatole France

People who say they read more write better.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“Live first, write second.”

— Miranda Paul

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

— Cornelia Funke

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

— Margaret Mitchell

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

— Mason Cooley

literature is the last banquet between minds.

— Edna O'Brien

I think Jack Thorne is an exceptional writer.

— Sarah Lancashire