Writer Quotes · Page 241

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

— Marcel Proust

Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.

— Anonymous

As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I really like listening to books. I listen to them at twice the speed so I can listen to more books.

— Poppy

“I am not so fortunate as to have Virgil as my guide, but I do have Dante as my inspiration.”

— Michael H. Stone

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

— Don DeLillo

I love reading I know its very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

— Wallace Stegner

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

— Francine Rivers

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and…

— Elle Varner

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

— Jonathan Taylor Thomas

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a…

— Greg Iles

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the…

— Andy Andrews

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the…

— Sidney Sheldon

I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not…

— David Bergen

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and…

— David Guterson

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a…

— John Carpenter

I always, at least back then, struggled with emotion in writing. I felt like I could do odd, unusual things, but there…

— Ben Marcus

I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If…

— Lisa Yuskavage

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with…

— Robert Stone

“Will found it funny that people balked at paying retail price for a book, something that a writer poured his or her…

— Sean Platt

“But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of…

— Joanna Scott

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

— Ricky Jay

“We’re all what we read to a very considerable degree.”

— David McCullough

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

— Will Schwalbe

The bane of every TV writer's existence is the likability note.

— Marti Noxon

“You know I always say that a healthy appetite for books leads to a girl with more than looks.”

— Rachel Coker

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

— Michael Moore

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

— J. Frank Dobie

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party ...”

— Henry Ward Beecher

I write for free online out of love, passion, and often, rage.

— Kameron Hurley

I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

— Jane Smiley

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

— Elizabeth Berg

“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.”

— Jennifer Egan

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

— Bernard Malamud

“What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!”

— Shandy L. Kurth

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

— Dick Bruna