Writer Quotes · Page 633

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

— Jeff Bezos

“Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.”

— Mia James

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

— Cyril Connolly

“A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.”

— Los Angeles Times

“I always thought being a writer was the highest calling there was. Don’t you?” - author Mark Merlis”

— Mark Merlis

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

— Claire Tomalin

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

— Stephen King

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

— Adam Weishaupt

In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

— Madison Smartt Bell

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you…

— Pat Morita

All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.

— Ira Berkow

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we…

— Jane Yolen

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that…

— Marc Maron

Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention…

— bell hooks

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying…

— Connie Willis

When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If…

— Tove Jansson

“The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created…

— Anne Edwards

“Walking across campus made me feel sad, and I thought to myself, I wasn't happy there. Then, after reading, we walked past…

— Siri Hustvedt

One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate…

— Steven Brust

Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results…

— Dan Jenkins

Whatever people may say about my books - and it always amazes me when people don't like them, but sometimes they don't…

— Geoff Dyer

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the…

— Julianna Baggott

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being…

— Marilynne Robinson

“We are lucky to die without having read some books, and without having heard some songs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

— John Banville

I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

— Alejandro Zambra

“I'm not stupid, romantic, or a busy Russian novelist.”

— Rabih Alameddine

I just Express out my Feelings on a piece of paper... And people says, I am a Writer

— Shashank Rayal

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

— Katherine Mansfield

I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

— Martin Freeman

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

— Marie Arana

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

— Heinrich Heine

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

— Alice Walker

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“I write for the love of writing, and to tell a story, nothing more, nothing less.”

— Ron Parham

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

— Ernest Hemingway

“99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

— Alistair Maclean