Writer Quotes · Page 135

My medium is prose, not the novel.

— David Shields

“There are no children's books in prison.”

— Stephen Reid

You should always judge a book by its lovers.

— Anonymous

“May the scribes record it.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris

Writer does nothing, But think deeply.

— Shashank Rayal

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

I'm the author of my own misery.

— Lynne Tillman

My parents think I'm in love with my books buh I'm not

— Dopekidd

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

— Edna Ferber

My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.

— Anonymous

“So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

— Zadie Smith

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,

— Jennifer Egan

Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

— Joshua Mohr

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

— Graeme Simsion

Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become…

— Walter Huston

Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting…

— Tracy Chevalier

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.”

— Thomas Harris

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage…

— Newell Dwight Hillis

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

— Oscar Wilde

Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most…

— John Cleese

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

— Mary Garden

“(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also…

— Anonymous

“I've come to suspect that whenever any ability is difficult to learn and rarely performed well, it's probably because contraries are called…

— Peter Elbow

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I…

— Earl Sweatshirt

“An old book was a time capsule. When you opened the front cover, you opened a door to another world—a world accessible…

— Stephen Parrish

I remember the few times that happened to me in writing, where you basically start writing and you look at the clock…

— Darren Aronofsky

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained,…

— Mohsin Hamid

For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if it were my current subscription.…

— Thomas Mallon

“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of…

— C.S. Lewis

“Books are an extension of our imagination”

— Danny Saunders

I've never been in a writer's room.

— Rashida Jones

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

— Mary Wesley

“Writers by affliction are an idiosyncratic lot.”

— Ken Goldstein

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

— Patricia Briggs

I've always liked new writing.

— Imelda Staunton

Writing only leads to more writing.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I write from my point of view.

— Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza