Writer Quotes · Page 573

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

— Daniel Berrigan

Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

— Jodi Picoult

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

— Arabella Weir

Some girls are quick to open there legs before opening a book.

— Ambri Bright

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Teen books are like adult books, without all the bullshit.”

— Anonymous

Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.

— Alice Munro

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

— Lionel Trilling

“how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest…

— Julian Barnes

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very…

— Francoise Sagan

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books…

— Aaron Swartz

I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I…

— Gao Xingjian

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“It is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent…

— Nat Greene

I always think it would be so nice to go to the beach and sit and write in my journal, but it…

— Sandra Oh

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

— Charles Bukowski

When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of…

— Moshe Kasher

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there…

— Neil Gaiman

“You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and…

— Dave Eggers

“Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the…

— Jeanette Winterson

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward…

— Eudora Welty

I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people…

— Lois Lowry

When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.…

— Geraldine Brooks

She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or…

— Anonymous

A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Every book you read may not save your life but some of them will.”

— Adam Stanley

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

— Diogenes Laertius

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

— W. H. Auden

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

— Blaise Pascal

I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting?

— Hilton Als

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

— Mary Higgins Clark

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

— Robert B. Parker

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase

— Todd Barry

I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit.

— Harold Ramis

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

— Henry Miller

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

— Alexandra Ripley

“Struggling writer' e un pleonasm, cuz a writer is always struggling.”

— Teodor Burnar

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

— Cinda Williams Chima

“Writers should measure their life not in years, but in moments of writing.”

— J. Alchem

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

— Jane Hirshfield