Writer Quotes · Page 321

“Depression ceases when a simple book captivates your soul.”

— K. F

The doors of the world are open to dose who can read

— Ben Carson

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

— Orson Scott Card

When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose.

— Miroslav Penkov

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

— Herman Melville

If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.

— Charlie Munger

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

— Steve Erickson

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

— Joan Didion

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not,…

— Carolyn Wells

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures…

— Anthony Trollope

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

— Anonymous

I felt that no self-help book had been written for millennials yet, so my ultimate goal was to write it.

— Mark Manson

“Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today’s newspaper.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

— Lynne Tillman

“THE WARDEN This is the first novel in Trollope’s popular series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The novel (Trollope’s fourth) was…

— Anthony Trollope

Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find…

— Sara Paretsky

“A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his…

— Karl Wiggins

“All I knew was what I wasn’t, and it took me some years to discover what I was. Which was a writer.…

— Joan Didion

People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn't work that way. People have…

— Ravi Subramanian

“[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, but…

— Paul Auster

“People ask me how to start writing. I tell them that 'Creating Creates Creativity'. Put your notes and outline aside. Start with…

— Dick Sederquist

One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes…

— Jill Talbot

To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.

— Philip Sington

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

— Jon Spaihts

“Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.”

— Jennie Chancey

“One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.”

— Amit Kalantri

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

— Clarence Darrow

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

— Joseph Addison

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

— Charlie Brooker

“I think I could use a library," she answered finally.”

— Michele Jaffe

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

— Paulo Coelho

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

— Sabrina Carpenter

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

— Helen Oyeyemi

“...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.”

— John Irving

“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.”

— Shankar Lamichhane

“Those who write the whole nights, keep a nation awake.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“If you make fiction just as valuable as reality, then any reality you don't need can be a delusion”

— Ryohgo Narita

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

— John Updike