Writer Quotes · Page 218

“Readers are made by readers. ”

— Aidan Chambers

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

— Carmela Dutra

I began writing as an experimental writer.

— Sandra Cisneros

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

— Robin Sloan

I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

— Anne Sexton

“reading a book is like being a new person”

— Jasmine Irwin

“I was born with a reading list that never ends.”

— Maud Casey

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

— Ian Mckellen

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

— Ruskin Bond

“whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read”

— Charles Dickens

There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

— Zayn Malik

I like to write on anything that is intriguing, unheard of - something that is offbeat.

— Mukul Dev

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.

— Eric Thomas

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

— Dennis Potter

“That's great, but what book should I read next?  What book would be a great companion”

— Jason Cannon

The writer in my dad is someone whom I've been inspired greatly by since my childhood.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more…

— Tryon Edwards

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the…

— John Green

“Because that’s what a book is: a letter from a writer to a reader. It’s connection. Something that reaches across the divides…

— Chris Harrison

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working.…

— Robert Osborne

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

— Henri Nouwen

I always knew, deep down, that I'd love to be an author, but I don't think I really thought about trying to…

— Tom Fletcher

Ideally, I would like everyone in the world to read and love my novels. In fact, I can't believe that everyone in…

— Howard Jacobson

I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is…

— Annie Dillard

The most important thing in writing process is the vibe cause if you on a roll, if you feel it you just…

— French Montana

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only…

— Mark Twain

I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of…

— Harold Pinter

Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make…

— Karin Slaughter

It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall…

— Diana Peterfreund

Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have…

— Susan Wiggs

“You read a book all the way through? Why?”

— Bart Simpson

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

— Charles Bukowski

books are like confort food without the calories

— Elizabeth Berg

I started writing stories as a child.

— Danielle Steel

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

— Susan Sontag

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

— Patti Smith

Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

— Toni Morrison

Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.

— Guy Kawasaki