Writer Quotes · Page 607

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

— Max Lucado

“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.”

— robert m drake

“There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…”

— Chris Geiger

I'm always presenting myself with problems to solve as a writer.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

— Ridley Scott

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

— Thomas Perry

“What a therapist is doing is reading/writing your thoughts.”

— Dr. Poison King

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

— Jonathan Franzen

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were…

— John Malkovich

“Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb…

— Walter Tevis

Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather…

— John Updike

I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very…

— Judd Apatow

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms…

— Peter York

“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and…

— Erin Willett

“On the table beside me is a book entitled Love’s Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My…

— Rick Yancey

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up,…

— Noah Baumbach

“It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than…

— Julian Barnes

“There was one sure way to avoid being assigned an impromptu chore in our house - be it taking out the trash…

— Will Schwalbe

Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of…

— Tom Hollander

With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see…

— Ben Folds

We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into…

— Steven Saylor

“To read is to struggle to name, to subject the sentences of a text to a semantic transformation. This transformation is erratic;…

— Roland Barthes

“Try to avoid your house catching fire, as this does no good at all. And while your house is still intact, it…

— Joseph Connolly

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

— Larry McMurtry

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

— Salman Rushdie

Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.

— Erro

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

— Albert Pike

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

— Ravi Subramanian

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

— Jean De La Bruyere

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

— Karin Slaughter

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

— David Rakoff

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

— Alice Walker

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

— Alan Bennett

“No matter how dark life became, shutting out the hurt was as easy as opening a cover.”

— Jay Kristoff

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

— Dan Deacon

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

— Anonymous