Writer Quotes · Page 263

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I guess my comfort zone as a writer is diametrically opposed to my comfort zone as a human being.

— Jennifer Egan

“And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.”

— John Irving

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

— Lena Dunham

“Literature is and should continue to be a vehicle that dispels 'otherness' or the 'outsider”

— Mala Naidoo

“Writing is like having your teeth extracted. It only hurts while you're doing it.”

— Jason Blacker

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

— Jacqueline Susann

Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.

— James Altucher

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

— Neil Gaiman

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

— Edith Wharton

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

— Umberto Eco

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

— Colson Whitehead

If there is any other way.To break the cycle and change that part.Reverse the pages, chapter and stories. Ill let you barrow…

— Louaiq8

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my…

— Nikki Grimes

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written…

— Roddy Doyle

“Books and knowledge don’t make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the…

— Malorie Blackman

“YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are…

— Suzy Kassem

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting…

— Saul Bellow

“Indeed I do belong to that dreadful class of persons known as the reclusive writer – the existential writer. For the existential…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking…

— M.J. Rose

That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think…

— George Saunders

“As good as' always spells mediocrity. But when a writer's work is in competition with all those thousands of other manuscripts that…

— Phyllis A. Whitney

“Quote by Alan Cupp "This is why writers have editors. These are those gracious, honest folks who are willing to point out…

— Brie Edison

'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.'

— Sue Perkins

I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw.

— Thomas Aquinas

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

— Anatole Broyard

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

— Walter Pater

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

— Karl Kraus

Of course, building a character is easy when the writing is good.

— Helene Yorke

Reading without understanding is like swallowing food without chewing.

— Vikrant Parsai

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

— Ezra Pound

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

— Rachel Zucker

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

— Lorrie Moore

I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6.

— Peter Heller

The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

— Matthew Specktor

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

— Judy Blume

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.”

— Anonymous

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

— Wallace Stegner

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

— Julia Cameron