Writer Quotes · Page 541

People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.

— Tom Peters

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

— Mark Skousen

“All great stories began as shitty first drafts. There are no exceptions to this.”

— M. Kirin

I made up a story about you and I. I lived it like it was true. I loved it like a boo.

— Ama M

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

— Virginia Woolf

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

— Cornelia Funke

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

— Alice Hoffman

Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.

— Israel Zangwill

“The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one…

— Susan Sontag

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would…

— Srinidhi.R

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for…

— Diane Setterfield

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read…

— Jodi Picoult

“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones…

— Roddy Doyle

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

— Samuel Smiles

“Whether it means producing a piece of art, writing a short story, or simply bringing beauty into our home or into the…

— Mary Potter Kenyon

“I stroked a big red A on top of his paper. Looked at it for a moment or two, then added a…

— Stephen King

“If you take a book with you on a journey,’ Mo had said when he put the first one in her box,…

— Cornelia Funke

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get…

— Joseph Campbell

Living our lifes is like writing a book. It starts the same for all of us and the ending is unknown for…

— Andreea-Paula Calugaru

Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring…

— Ben Dolnick

“Whatever. I’ve never understood what the big deal is about reading.” He shuts the door and locks it, turning for the stairs.…

— Jessica Sorensen

In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,…

— Gaston Bachelard

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

— Walter Jon Williams

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

— Dee Rees

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

— Anonymous

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.

— Helene Cixous

“I'm in love with writing, but sometimes I swear it hates me.”

— Buffy Andrews

“I tried to close my imagination, but it stayed open like a book that has been read too often.”

— Christie Watson

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me.

— Brian Bird

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

— John Hodgman

When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes…

— Chuck Palahniuk

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

— Ambrose Bierce

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants.”

— Fierce Dolan

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

— Thomas Pynchon

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

— Amanda Hocking

I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.

— Ester Dean