Writer Quotes · Page 259

We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.

— Annie Barrows

There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it.

— Jane Fallon

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

— David Morrell

“When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.”

— Kiersten White

“HAVING THE ANSWER DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN YOU KNOW HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM -HOPENATION”

— Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

— Lois Lowry

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

— Malcolm X

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

— Jane Austen

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent,…

— Danielle Steel

For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my…

— Richard Ford

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to…

— Richard Adams

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write…

— Max Lucado

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

— Jim Goldberg

“To write a lot, you should rethink your mental models of rejection and publication. Rejections are like a sales tax on publications:…

— Paul J. Silvia

When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the…

— Tom Waits

You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with…

— Doug Peacock

Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban…

— Brandon Massey

“I promote reading. I travel anywhere any time. In my books the indivuals face fears, issues, love, friendships, and are reminded qently…

— Susan Kay Box Brunner

“The thing about this bookshelf is that each of these books is a vast experience unto itself, while also being both self-contained…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Have you ever been writing something when you just forgot where you were, and what time it was, and you kept diving…

— Peter Gould

I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A…

— Kingsley Amis

How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and…

— Ellen Gilchrist

Writing for late night is really good for learning how to write when you don't want to write. You have to produce…

— Michelle Wolf

Knowledge not only gain from books , emotion that inspire.

— Mak_786

“Rather tiring to a person whose idea of outdoor activity was taking her book outside to read. “All”

— Kristan Higgins

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

— Maya Angelou

“People loves Ideas I love books because Ideas can be found in books”

— Abid Hussain Library Officer

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

— Mike Greenberg

“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good.”

— William Wordsworth

“Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.”

— Sara Sheridan

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

— Susan Sontag

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

— Lynne Rae Perkins

I just feel the need as a writer to try something kind of deep and fulfilling.

— Frank Peretti

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

— St. Lucia

“I MUST BE A TIME TRAVELLER BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS AHEAD OF MY TIME”

— Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

“Libraries were havens for everyone, he might've told her, not just the clean and productive.”

— Matthew J. Sullivan

My mind's monumental, my pen is penetration That produce words that bleed on the pad like menstruation

— Elzhi

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

— Sara Paretsky

If you're a writer, you're constantly doubting yourself.

— Tom King