Writer Quotes · Page 521

“I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.”

— Maya Angelou

“I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again”

— john j geddes

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

— Jane Gardam

“Help your child discover a new world, where magic can live on every page, BOOKS!”

— Steve Altier

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

— Mary Garden

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

— Rick Riordan

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

— Mattie Stepanek

I have a little pocket journal. I just put the pen on the paper and just go.

— Tash Sultana

Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to…

— Gretchen Rubin

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke

The writing of 'The Ladykillers' was fun. But once it goes out of your hands it's not fun, 'especially for someone who…

— Graham Linehan

“Amazon isn’t happening to the book business,” he likes to say to authors and journalists. “The future is happening to the book…

— Brad Stone

“Rejection is a writer's best friend. If you are not failing regularly, you are living so far below your potential that you're…

— Gregg Levoy

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only…

— Blaise Cendrars

A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.

— Charles Bock

“I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good…

— Og Mandino

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together…

— Susan Minot

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon…

— William S. Burroughs

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you,…

— Anonymous

When I'm sure I have a story, I call my collaborators and we begin to discuss it. And we conduct studies of…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

When I started out, I didn't have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over…

— Neal Asher

“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary…

— Judith Skelton-Grant

“Editing can feel incredibly burdensome for self-published authors when you are tasked to reread your work, for what feels like, a thousand…

— Robin S. Baker

I've been asked to write my autobiography, but I've not been interested.

— Shaun Ryder

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

— George William Curtis

“Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.”

— Meagan Spooner

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

— Frances Ridley Havergal

“Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done.”

— Nick Hornby

“taken. No wonder Tack insisted I bring The Book of Shhh; he left clues for me in it.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book.

— Emily Ratajkowski

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I've been a writer my whole life. I've just never pursued a career in it since I graduated college.

— Scheana Shay

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

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm obsessed with books. When a good book hits me, it's all I can think about and all I can do.

— Jessie Cave

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

— Mason Cooley

“To read is to humble yourself to learn and to love yourself to be entertained.”

— Miranda A. Uyeh