Writer Quotes · Page 158

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

— Anne Enright

“A reader [is] a time traveler.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“Reading was like visiting distant friends.”

— Allegra Goodman

I think Dennis Kelly's a really good writer.

— Karla Crome

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

— Winston Churchill

“Write to be understood not to impress.”

— Gurnam Singh Sodhi

Read a book and book yourself into another world.

— Robert D Dangoor

“What I’m writing to you is not for reading— it’s for being.”

— Clarice Lispector

“Writing is like a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.”

— Avery Breyer

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

— David Rabe

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

— Richard Flanagan

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.”

— Gilbert Highet

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

— V. S. Naipaul

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

— Jeffery Deaver

Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.

— Suzanne Collins

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great…

— Richard Powers

I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew…

— Paul Theroux

When somebody says, 'This must be a children's book,' basically they're saying, 'You must be a child.' And so my answer is,…

— Chris Van Allsburg

“as [ale] is the liquor of modern historians,..., it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought…

— Henry Fielding

“Books expand, enhance, enlighten, and enthrall.Read a good book today,and open your mind to new dimensions!”

— CJ Peterson

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but…

— Mo Yan

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more…

— Claire Messud

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

— Edwidge Danticat

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science…

— Roland Barthes

The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have…

— Mary McCarthy

At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the…

— William Boyd

“These works are handed down from teacher to pupil, from parent to child, almost without question, like DNA. They are memorized, recited,…

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a…

— Jennifer Egan

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I…

— Marc Acito

I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is…

— Rebecca Serle

“...maybe writing doesn't require sacrifice. Maybe it's a gift to experience emotions through our brushes, ink, and paper. I wrote out sorrow,…

— Lisa See

“What you read renew your mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

— Ray Bradbury

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

— Harper Lee

Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut.

— Jesse Kellerman

You have to write what you know.

— Taika Waititi

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

— Chris Cleave

“A writer's job is never finished.”

— Sai Marie Johnson

The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

— Dee Brown