Writer Quotes · Page 295

“I am still more or less sane because of my evening reading.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Tricky devils, these novelists. The ink gets into their heads.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

— Duane Michals

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.—George Bernard Shaw”

— Jan Karon

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading.”

— Betty Smith

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

“ autonomy , n . "I want my books to have their own shelves", you said, and that's how I knew it…

— David Levithan

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they…

— Aldous Huxley

“I am a writer: to the core of my being, the marrow of my bones. . . to the depth of my…

— Valjeanne Jeffers

Write from your heart, write from your soul.. make the best of your talent and don't ever let it go not for…

— Anonymous

If reality and fiction are equal, then any reality you dont need can just be called delusion. Thats how we do things.

— Erika Karisawa

“Writing all day every day is good, but it’s not good enough. You need to have your clone ghostwriting for you too.”

— Jarod Kintz

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.

— Arthur Evans

“I started writing because of a terrible feeling of powerlessness," the novelist Anita Brookner has said. The National Book Award winner Alice…

— Wally Lamb

The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed,…

— Ellie Goulding

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning…

— Virginia Woolf

“In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe…

— Arthur Miller

I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so,…

— Anne Lamott

I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into…

— Mary Oliver

Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into…

— Andrew Himes

“My favorite book is The Mysterious Island. I order my books from a flimsy catalog the teacher hands out to every student…

— Greg Iles

“Life is wonderful when you're the one to write it.”

— Coco J. Ginger

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

— Richard Powers

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

— Moshe Safdie

“Keep writing for writing is sustenance for the soul.”

— Christopher Broom

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

— Andre Maurois

The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.

— Joan Didion

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

— Helen Exley

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

— Alistair MacLeod

“and who writes, he says, because he finds it easier than talking.”

— John J. Winters

I can't write about someone who is unlike me in all senses-physically, emotionally and socially.

— Vetrimaaran

“Impossibly (A Dante’s Nine MC Novel) by Colleen Masters.”

— Anonymous

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

— Deb Caletti

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

— Sammy Hagar

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

— Efim Bogoljubov

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

— Robert Jordan