Writer Quotes · Page 59

“Indie publishing is a get-rich-slow scheme.”

— Stuart Montgomery

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

— Frank Ocean

“Grab a book, coz reading is wound healing. - ME”

— Nadiah Alwi

I considered calmly that I was born to write.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

— Henry Miller

“Books are companions even if you don't open them.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Writing is a delicious agony.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“God, I love a man who reads”

— Tiffany Reisz

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

— Francis Quarles

Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.

— David Foster

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.

— Padgett Powell

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.

— Frank Kermode

“Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.”

— Piper Payne

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

— Norma McCorvey

“We support all actions that lead to the joy, the fun, the reward, the challenge, and the adventure of reading.”

— Paul Acampora

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

— Isabel Allende

My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am…

— Hallie Ephron

“On the shelves along the wall my stacks. Jumbled and worn. Pagers curled and stained. Spines creased and cracked.”

— Lucas Klauss

“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”

— E. Lockhart

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society…

— Isaac Asimov

“A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a…

— Barista Uno

“…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want…

— Sigrid Nunez

“Brother Luca Pacioli. It took him thirty years to write.” The book is bound in deepest green with a tooled border of…

— Hilary Mantel

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so…

— Dolly Parton

What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki…

— Sarah Kay

At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills…

— Stephen King

“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change…

— Anonymous

“I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you…

— Margaret Atwood

I love rereading 'The Ascent of Rum Doodle.'

— Tim Key

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

— William S. Burroughs

“A book is dead until you read it.”

— Clive Barker

Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy

— Anonymous

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.

— Italo Calvino

Good writers are of necessity rare.

— George Henry Lewes

I don't really write all that well with others.

— Washed Out

A writer without his country is nothing.

— Marek Hlasko