Writer Quotes · Page 192

Libraries are where it all begins.

— Rita Dove

Keep on writing and chgungig away!

— Nephi

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Unread books are like unopened doors.”

— Thomas F. Shubnell

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

— Anonymous

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

— David Mamet

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.

— Robert Newton Peck

I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.

— Nicholson Baker

There is no better indicators of character than the books you have.

— John Dunning

“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time”

— Kurt Vonnegut

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

— Margaret Laurence

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

— Anonymous

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

— Carl Deuker

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,

— T. E. Lawrence

I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent.

— Gillian Flynn

“At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath…

— robert m drake

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels…

— Thomas Lennon

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from…

— Annie Murphy Paul

Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from…

— Ben Dolnick

I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else.…

— Peter Gzowski

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes

— Cole Porter

“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their…

— Lois Duncan

Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…

— David Foster Wallace

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now…

— Leah Price

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating…

— Epictetus

The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many…

— Hilary Mantel

The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds.…

— Ayn Rand

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever…

— Alice Munro

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

— Jeff Bridges

“I will not allow books to prove anything.”

— Jane Austen

“This isn't a tragedy. It's just non-fiction.”

— Noelle Howey

I've never had writer's block.

— David Byrne

I'm a firm believer in reading actual books.

— Madelaine Petsch

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

— Salman Rushdie

“Read. You can always talk with another reader.”

— Rorke Denver

“A writer is someone who has no choice”

— Andrew Updegrove