Writer Quotes · Page 182

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

— Christopher Moore

“Readers are made by readers. ”

— Aidan Chambers

As a comedy writer, I work largely from home.

— Jesse Armstrong

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

— Fran Drescher

“We need James Bond with a library science degree.”

— Robin Sloan

I began writing as an experimental writer.

— Sandra Cisneros

“Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart”

— Carmela Dutra

“This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect.”

— Samuel Beckett

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

— Roxane Gay

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

— Noah Baumbach

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

— Marshall McLuhan

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.

— Steve Erickson

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

— Abbas Kiarostami

“Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!”

— Gabrielle Dubois

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

— Paul Shaffer

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

— Courtney B. Vance

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and…

— Richard Denney

I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got…

— Brandi Carlile

I don't think I compete with myself by trying to make a better book. I don't know that that's possible. I mean,…

— Jon J Muth

“Assign each new hire to read a book and write a one-page report so you can see how serious they are about…

— Patrick Bet-David

There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but…

— Jackie DeShannon

Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our…

— Alain de Botton

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A…

— Roald Dahl

I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions…

— Alexandra Bracken

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed…

— Alan Bradley

“Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then…

— Ray Bradbury

I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I…

— Anthony Doerr

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was…

— Gloria Estefan

“I hate lending, or borrowing—if you want me to read a book, tell me about it, or buy me a copy outright.…

— Leah Price

“To read is not a virtue; but to read well is an art, and an art that only the born reader can…

— Edith Wharton

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte,…

— Robin Wright

“The difference between now and fifteen years ago is I don't think I was able, ever, to write any of those notebooks…

— Chris Kraus

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

— James Salter

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

— David Mamet

My passion for books has changed my life.

— Marley Dias

I'm always writing down words I don't know.

— Iga Swiatek

“The novel was rejected by thirty publishers”

— Alan Griffin

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

— Mackenzie Crook

“What do you seek in these shelves?”

— Robin Sloan

“َA book is a time machine.”

— jahangir khosravi shakib