Writer Quotes · Page 80

I can Hula-Hoop and read a book at the same time.

— Alison Sudol

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.

— Lewis Buzbee

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

— George R. R. Martin

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

— Neil Gaiman

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

— Arundhati Roy

“Reading is my escape when reality sucks”

— Wency June Z. Libot

“Fiction is often the best fact.”

— William Faulkner

I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.

— Michael Giacchino

“The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.”

— John Gardner

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write.

— Michel Faber

The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

— W. G. Sebald

I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.

— Philip K. Dick

Before becoming a writer, I worked in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas.

— Sandra Brown

“Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be!”

— Anonymous

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

— Nelson Algren

“And if you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hand on one is like Christmas and a birthday…

— Lisa Wingate

If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to…

— Fred D'Aguiar

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and…

— Dave Eggers

In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, 'The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,' talking about women…

— Sarah Weinman

“You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.”

— John Irving

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits…

— Jenny Offill

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their…

— Robert E. Howard

“Every story holds insight into the writer's soul. If the soul can't be found, the writer didn't bleed enough.”

— M.L. Stephens

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if…

— Art Spiegelman

“When she thought she was nearly finished, she noticed that the next shelf started up again with Browne. After that came Browning.…

— Betty Smith

I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good…

— Anonymous

I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would…

— Akhil Sharma

I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill…

— Cynthia Voigt

“Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious complicity with them, betraying its elitism, sexism…

— Terry Eagleton

In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity…

— Margot Livesey

It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range…

— Alain de Botton

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

— Doris Lessing

Write about what you know, that's what I say.

— Josh Widdicombe

Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

— David McCullough

“In the library everyone was rich.”

— Naomi Shibab Nye

“Reading means living many lives.”

— William Wyatt

Clutter is the disease of American writing,

— William Zinsser

I could write stories just as rotten.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs