Writer Quotes · Page 306

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

— Mireille Guiliano

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

— Italo Calvino

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

— Joseph Joubert

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

— Anna Quindlen

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

— Nathan Englander

Mystery fiction was considered a stepchild of literature.

— Evan Hunter

“I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.”

— Gina Sheridan

Throw down your books, you have nothing to lose except your grades.

— Movie

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is…

— John Steinbeck

Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.

— William Bernhardt

The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…

— Umberto Eco

Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than…

— Margaret Atwood

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of…

— Saul Bellow

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

— Sara Sheridan

Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier…

— John Fowles

A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity…

— Carl Hiaasen

The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read…

— Paul Harding

I can't trace thematic similarities between Then We Came To The End and The Unnamed to a life event; I think it's…

— Joshua Ferris

And journaling became the place that I was able to find a sense of narrative control at a time when I had…

— Suleika Jaouad

“I’d suggest that what works for me may work equally well for you. If you are enslaved to (or intimidated by) the…

— Stephen King

“Friday 22 June 1821 [Halifax] I owe a good deal to this journal. By unburdening my mind on paper I feel, as…

— Anne Lister

“One simple change – replacing news and mass media with books – can produce dramatic changes in your life. No matter what…

— Martin Meadows

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“His autobiography is Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster.”

— Gareth Huw Davies

“Books were safer than other people anyway. (...) I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

— Neil Gaiman

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

— Julian Barnes

I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.

— R. L. Stine

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

— David Shields

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

— Ray Bradbury

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience.

— Bonnie McKee

I live and I write, and I write and I live. It's kind of just how I am.

— Laufey

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

“Prepare, take advice, read the books, then do it your way.”

— Chris Scott

“Most of the books published these days consist of a series of whines followed by an epiphany.”

— Rabih Alameddine

The more you write, the better you will write! So - keep at it!

— Ruskin Bond

“Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.”

— Amaya Ellman

“A good book is a good book, I’ve always thought, whatever the genre.”

— Miranda James