Writer Quotes · Page 627

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

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

— Julian Barnes

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

— Norma McCorvey

“Perhaps there is some secret homing device in books that brings them to their perfect readers.”

— Juliet Ashton

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

— Edward Abbey

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave…

— Ray Bradbury

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure…

— Laurie Foos

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

— Brian Azzarello

“The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored -- treat it not like work, more as a…

— C.S. Lewis

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so…

— Katherine Paterson

Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways…

— Walter Kirn

I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

— Gloria Naylor

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in…

— Jennifer Haigh

People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly…

— Philip K. Dick

Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let…

— Matt Fraction

There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their…

— Sara Paretsky

My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around…

— Richard Grossman

I don't know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it.…

— Scott Turow

“Reading. I can get lost in a world and spend days there. Besides, reading a book gives me a goal. It's that…

— C.M. Stunich

The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath'…

— Richard Corliss

What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

— Joseph Campbell

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

— Sarah Dessen

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

— Tom Robbins

“There are few things I like better in life than getting lost in a good book.”

— John Grisham

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

— Steven Pressfield

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

— Charles Spurgeon

It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head.

— Gillian Robespierre

“When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.”

— Peggy Rathmann

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Francis Quarles

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

— Padgett Powell

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

— David Foster

“Reading without suspicion is more dangerous than blogging without authority.”

— Gordon Highland

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

— Orhan Pamuk

Move on.Its a chapter in the past.But Don't close the book.Just turn the page

— Anonymous