Writer Quotes · Page 234

I collect books - a lot of books.

— Kate Spade

Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

— William Styron

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Libraries are where it all begins.

— Rita Dove

Keep on writing and chgungig away!

— Nephi

“Unread books are like unopened doors.”

— Thomas F. Shubnell

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

— Anonymous

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

— Dean Koontz

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

— Tahereh Mafi

Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.

— Dan Chaon

I know some artists who write every day, and for a while, I felt really guilty that I didn't.

— Maggie Rogers

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

— Irwin Shaw

“Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!”

— Jen Selinsky

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

— Rebecca Solnit

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.

— Steven Moffat

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a…

— Anne Enright

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of…

— Betty Smith

I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value?…

— Jenny Zhang

I don't get a lot of writer's block, because it's all based on research. I just start looking through my notes, and…

— Robert Eggers

Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous…

— Garth Nix

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they…

— Mickey Spillane

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

— Mark Kurlansky

“...what really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and…

— Stephen Koch

I see the emphasis on a lot of ideas and I know that's directed at me. [Megan Chance] come up with an…

— Megan Chance

We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's…

— Otis Chandler

'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how…

— Grace Paley

“My dad used to say that life was like turning the pages in a book. "Oh, look," he'd say, pretending to flip…

— Ally Condie

“But none of them taught me the things I learned from Carrie White. The most important is that the writer’s original perception…

— Stephen King

“Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Now here's the heavy irony. So I went back to New York to become a librarian. To actually seek out this thing…

— Elaine Dundy

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so;…

— Jane Austen

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 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

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment.

— Mick Foley