Writer Quotes · Page 606

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

— John Burdett

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

— Dan Brown

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

— Kiese Laymon

“A book for me! I can read it. I can smell it. I can keep it forever.”

— Aliki

Move on it's just a chapter in the past turn the page but don't close the book

— Tamika-leeigh

“In the Hitler years we still believed in books enough to burn them. Imagine,”

— William T. Vollmann

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

— Sam Ewing

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

— Franz Kafka

The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper…

— Bob Monkhouse

Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't…

— Barry Eisler

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted…

— Charles Kuralt

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

— Sue Grafton

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale…

— William Wordsworth

“He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that…

— Suzanne Selfors

Knut Hamsun's writing is magical. His sentences are glowing; he could write about anything and make it alive. Of contemporary writers, Thure…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a…

— Sefi Atta

“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable…

— Michel Foucault

Write like you write, like you can't help but write, and your voice will become yours and yours alone. It'll take time…

— Chuck Wendig

“I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little…

— L.M. Montgomery

“He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab a good one as…

— Andrew Peterson

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between…

— William Osler

That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember…

— Michael Scott

“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us…

— Graham Worthington

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me…

— Ridley Pearson

“Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.”

— robert m drake

As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

— George Meyer

“All too often I write to find out what I think about a subject, not because I already know.”

— Neil Gaiman

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

— James Ellroy

“You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.”

— Saru Singhal

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

— Robbie Robertson

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

— Harper Lee

Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

— Thomas Piketty

I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.

— H. A. Rey

“A pen and a napkin is all an author needs. A finger. Sand..." http://ginamc.blogspot.com/ ”

— Morten Jorgensen

If I had been brought up in America, I think I would still have had the same sort of job as a…

— Justin Cartwright

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

— Douglas Kennedy

Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.

— Ray Guy

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

— Lucinda Williams