Writer Quotes · Page 617

'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

— Gerald Durrell

I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody's living room.

— Amanda Gorman

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

— Josh Billings

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

— Gene Wolfe

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

— Dree Hemingway

“Get your deprived, samall-town, romance-novel reading mind out of of the gutter, Becky.”

— Maureen A. Miller

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a…

— Stephen Leigh

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Oh kindly books! Like true and trusted friends: What blessed cheer your presence with us lends. Whene'er we spend a pleasant hour…

— Maurine Hathaway

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good,…

— Richard Bausch

It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing…

— Grant Morrison

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use…

— Ted Rall

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

— Gale Anne Hurd

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

— Dan Brown

“I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first…

— Jay Allison

I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet…

— John Green

In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate…

— Edmund White

“I know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at…

— Laurence Sterne

“Write poorly. Suck. Write Awful. Terribly. Frightfully. Don’t care. Turn off the inner editor. Let yourself write. Let it flow. Let yourself…

— Colleen Hoover

“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish…

— Stephen King

I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.

— Dave Barry

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It's a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that's a writerly thing.

— Emma Healey

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

— Mike Wallace

“Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.”

— William Faulkner

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

— Raymond Carver

'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte has been my all-time favorite book since I was in middle school.

— Rebecca Serle

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

— Alberto Manguel

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

— Paul Di Filippo

“Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“That one special book that takes you on a trip you never expected to go on...”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

— Ayn Rand

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

— Gail Godwin

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

— Barry Mann

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

— Dani Shapiro