Writer Quotes · Page 258

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.”

— Harold Howe

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

— Anne Sexton

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

— Jean Rhys

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

— Brad Feld

I write about whatever inspires me, people, incidents anything.

— Bhumika Chawla

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

— Ruskin Bond

If I had to write down everything I've done in my entire life, I'll begin with writing all my sorrows in sand…

— Chee Vai Tang

“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too…

— robert m drake

“children were still young of inventing and telling orally, sometimes of writing down, ‘children’s stories’ for their private amusement… The Hobbit was…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

— Elizabeth Strout

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm…

— Janet Fitch

We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong…

— Danny Carey

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

— Jacqueline Woodson

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and…

— Francois Fenelon

Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books…

— John Connolly

“Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense…

— Initially NO

Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“If you want to succeed as an author you need to work your ass off. Not only do you need to work,…

— Chris Fox

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors. Sometimes it just comes out in the writing. I'll get an idea as…

— Sara Shepard

“There are three points of view from which a writer can be considered: he may be considered as a storyteller, as a…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third…

— Christopher Morley

The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with…

— Ursula Vernon

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

— Oscar Wilde

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

— Mason Cooley

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

— Maria Semple

My favorite book is 'Speed of Trust' by Stephen Covey.

— Eric Yuan

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

— Jodi Picoult

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

— Henry Miller

I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'

— David Farr

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

— Fran Lebowitz

I love writing. It's a fun challenge. It refuels me personally.

— Trevor McNevan

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

— Luis von Ahn

There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

— Irvine Welsh

“Now as always in our history, reading is among our greatest freedoms”

— The Freedom to Read Statement

“No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.”

— Sydney Smith

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can take away from it.”

— James Bryce