Writer Quotes · Page 583

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

— Lucille Kallen

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

— Emily Gould

I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.

— Megan Fox

“She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.”

— robert m drake

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

— Anonymous

“Where are my two precious human books so I may turn their pages, aye?”

— Ray Bradbury

People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

— Kevin Smith

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

— Harper Lee

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth…

— Thomas Traherne

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in…

— Gore Vidal

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,…

— William Cowper

I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when…

— Leni Zumas

I'm trying to write every day if I can. I think the idea is to try and chip away at it as…

— Wesley Schultz

“Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.”

— Benjamin Carson

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it…

— Ayn Rand

“The world is full of people who write poorly but passionately, and others who can put a sentence together but have no…

— Kameron Hurley

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to…

— Josh Elliott

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief…

— Brian Evenson

“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry –…

— Emily Dickinson

What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for…

— Hilton Als

When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his…

— John Fante

The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting…

— Brunonia Barry

“The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

— Samuel Johnson

The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.

— Jann Arden

It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

— Ernest Cline

Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'

— Lydia Lunch

“Reading without eating food is like Person standing in a war without weapons.”

— Anonymous

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

— David Gilmour

I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.

— Anonymous

What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go.

— Jazmine Sullivan

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

— Stephen King

“Alas! Where is human nature so weak as in the book-store?”

— Henry Ward Beecher

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.

— Arthur Plotnik

“It was a tricky quality that suggested, well, magic and things read in books,”

— Truman Capote

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.

— Jeffrey Archer