Writer Quotes · Page 318

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

— Katherine Center

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

— Vince Vaughn

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

— Joseph Addison

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

— Peter Brimelow

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

— John McGahern

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.

— Sophie Dahl

I've always been a writer and have always loved writing.

— Shaun King

“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make…

— Haruki Murakami

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the…

— James Surowiecki

“Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. ”

— Patrick Dennis

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy…

— Martin Cruz Smith

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want…

— Jennifer Egan

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me…

— Charles Bukowski

“I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I…

— Adrienne Rich

I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about…

— Anne Enright

I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I…

— Nathan Englander

“Writer's block comes from the feeling that one is doing the wrong thing or doing the right thing badly. Fiction written for…

— John Gardner

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and…

— Gene Luen Yang

We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our…

— Seneca the Younger

My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges…

— Joe Queenan

The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The…

— Vikram Seth

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws…

— Philip Roth

“In my case, if I start out by thinking about the plot, things don't go well. Small points, such as my impression…

— Haruki Murakami

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

— Francis Bacon

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

— Arthur Ashe

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

— Joanne Harris

Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

— Stephen Vizinczey

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

— Elias Canetti

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

— Samuel Beckett

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

— Donald Miller

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

— Isaac D'Israeli

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

— Richard Greenberg

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

— Mark Twain

I could use a writer to balance my flows. But I never share my thoughts, This is all a nigga knows.

— Drake

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

— Chelsea Cain

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

— Roald Dahl

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

— William Blake

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

— Alexander Pope