Writer Quotes · Page 133

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

— Nora Ephron

“beauty tip for the world, go read a book”

— Antonia Perdu

Write what you’re scared about.

— Jason Katims

I've been writing since I was 19.

— Melvyn Bragg

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

— John Ruskin

I try to get through a book every two weeks.

— Andre Iguodala

I read books to read myself.

— Sven Birkerts

The book belongs to the author.

— Maxwell Perkins

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

— Neil Gaiman

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

— Charles Stross

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“you have write that not some imagine that cause on write that you can make anyone feel it...”

— Tary

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

— Rex Stout

“Books rose to the ceiling, which rose to a point, with ladders that leaned against the walls.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.

— Amos Lee

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

— Anonymous

I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read…

— Celeste Ng

As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on…

— William Golding

“Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy…

— Sarah Arthur

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

— Haruki Murakami

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

— Phyllis Bottome

“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my…

— Jeffery Deaver

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

— David Duchovny

Even though I'm a writer and I love books and writing books is my favorite thing to do, when you teach, and…

— David Bianculli

Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's…

— Michael Marshall Smith

“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories…

— Tom Perrotta

I think the main thing that we can do as adults helping young people to find the joy in reading, whether we're…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

“Writing is hard . That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right…

— Andy Ihnatko

I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard…

— Wole Soyinka

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the…

— Robert Goolrick

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until…

— Harper Lee

“Never give up. Never. Ever. Ever.”

— Nancy Hendrickson

Write what should not be forgotten.

— Isabel Allende

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

— Emily Dickinson

Write what you love and love what you write.

— Ray Bradbury

Basbanes makes you love books.

— Scott Turow

''Talking to a book, while reading.''

— QueenColor495

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

— John Waters

Books are a finer world within the world.

— Alexander Smith