Writer Quotes · Page 578

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

— Khaled Hosseini

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.

— Chet Williamson

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

— Maurice Sendak

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

— Terry Brooks

“Books reflect interests; interests inform personality and personality decides a course of action.”

— Andrew Caldecott

“If you have Microsoft Word, you can become a writer tonight. Just start typing!”

— Jarod Kintz

Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.

— Amos Oz

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

— John Updike

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

— Elizabeth Berg

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

— Erica Jong

Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's…

— T. Jefferson Parker

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the…

— Joseph Brodsky

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of…

— Rachel Vincent

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try…

— Jeff Abbott

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own…

— Stan Lee

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is…

— Maryanne Wolf

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a…

— John Steinbeck

You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought…

— Philipp Meyer

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my…

— Marshall McLuhan

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable…

— Anonymous

“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture…

— Michel Houellebecq

We live and breathe words. … It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could…

— Cassandra Clare

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been…

— Jose Saramago

“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.”

— M. Kirin

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

— Virginia Woolf

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

— Lafcadio Hearn

I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.

— Roxane Gay

“We live in an odd world, where books are filled with expressions of love, and lives devoid of it.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

“The problem with reading a good book is trying to cope after it's finished.”

— Devonnie A. Black

“Every word I write is a defiance of despair, every idea is testament to life out loud.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't drink alcohol too late in the evening; I read a good book.

— Michael Rosbash

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

— Lauren Alaina

I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.

— Gary Paulsen

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

— Cesar Chavez

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

— Margaret Anderson

Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident.

— Guy Garvey

The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition.

— Philip Gerard

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

— Siri Hustvedt