Writer Quotes · Page 641

“All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.”

— Amit Kalantri

When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.

— Jorge Semprun

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

— Marilyn Johnson

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

— Joan Didion

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

— Bill Blass

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

— Walter Kirn

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I think I have a story to tell to inspire people - and for me that's what 'Life Stories' is all about.

— Kerry Katona

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way…

— Jeffery Deaver

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

— Charles Kuralt

“We have fiction mimicking truth, and truth mimicking fiction. We have a dangerous overlap, a dangerous blur. And in all probability it…

— Kurt Andersen

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.”

— Pai Kit Fai

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

— Tom Brokaw

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a…

— Uma Krishnaswami

“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them twice . What kind of…

— Derek Landy

Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at…

— Laura Bush

I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and…

— Khaled Hosseini

“The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable…

— John Gardner

It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths;…

— Madame de Stael

“The stories Hemingway told, the life he lived, all of it ended with a squeeze of a finger on a trigger. What…

— Kamal Ravikant

I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I love thinking about things subtextually and I actually - like for instance when I write, I actually, I'm not very analytical…

— Quentin Tarantino

“The reading quieted his brain a little. Without Katherine and without the Theorem and without his hopes of mattering, he had very…

— John Green

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

— Vijay Seshadri

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

— Lauren Oliver

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

— Charles Bukowski

To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all,

— Harold Bloom

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

— Megan Abbott

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

— Danielle Trussoni

“This book was made much better with the help of our beta readers: Alia Renee Capodici,”

— India Drummond

“Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.”

— Martin Edwards

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

— Lois Lowry

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

— Henrik Ibsen

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

— Sigrid

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

— Rachel Ward

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

— Lynne Tillman