Writer Quotes · Page 118

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

— Kevin McCloud

I only want power so I can get books.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Share a book and you'll make a friend!”

— Annie Lang

That's important to me, to recommend books.

— Ann Patchett

“You can go anywhere in books”

— Paul Graham

“You can't have too much dog in a book.”

— Gail Honeyman

I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.

— Michel Faber

“Memoirs, as everyone knows, make bad history.”

— Terry Nardin

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

— Ian Mckellen

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

— Rachel Cusk

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

— Anonymous

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

— Maya Angelou

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

— Oriana Fallaci

“The stuff in books made everyday life seem normal.”

— Anonymous

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

— Thomas Huxley

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

— Douglas Coupland

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of…

— Taylor Momsen

Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the…

— Jenna Bush

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true…

— Jon Ronson

I really like writing for specific projects. It's a whole different way of writing when you have certain guidelines and a theme…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very…

— Richard Scarry

“An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops…

— M.J. Stoddard

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love…

— John Green

When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books.…

— Lorene Cary

“Oh, don't get me started! I love fantasy, I read it for pleasure, even after all these years. Pat McKillip, Ursula Le…

— Terri Windling

“I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole…

— Lloyd Alexander

“That's what a good book does-it puts readers on their knees. It makes you want to believe in a world you just…

— Pat Conroy

“The Circle... Ted Dekker is my inspiration, my favorite author, and my hero, so it should come as no surprise that my…

— Luke Alistar

“No one can learn to love by following a manual and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm…

— Paulo Coelho

In fiction you can make up everything to create the feeling. You can manufacture a story with whatever tools you want. With…

— Chelsea Martin

“I’ll tell you a thing that will shock you. It will certainly shock the readers of Writer’s Digest. What I often do…

— Anthony Burgess

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

— George Michael

“writing is a sustained act of empathy.”

— Andre Dubois

“Why read? Because we are given more than we are.”

— James V. Schall

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

— Karin Slaughter

“Write the draft from your heart!”

— Kathleen Ballantine Watson

I write to give myself strength.

— Joss Whedon

“Books are the enemy of ignorance.”

— Steven Donkin

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.

— Dale Peck