Writer Quotes · Page 322

The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

— Brian Michael Bendis

“When a person gives you a book to read, he's asking you to look into his soul.”

— Suzanne Morrison

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

— Tom Skerritt

“Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”

— Dennis R. Miller

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

— Roxane Gay

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

— John Fowles

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.

— Vera Nazarian

I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being…

— Mark Haddon

“And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books." "Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta!…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been…

— Anna Quindlen

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're…

— Natalie Portman

When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you…

— Don Roff

“A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to…

— Karen Karbo

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine…

— Jim Shepard

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better…

— Norman MacCaig

“The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered…

— Paul Theroux

“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware…

— Wendy Lesser

Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one…

— Danielle Trussoni

I'm a writer in the world. I translate the confusion that I might feel, the dread that I know I feel, moving…

— Toni Morrison

Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that…

— Gail Carson Levine

Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that?…

— Orhan Pamuk

And the reason you hate writing so much is because you start analyzing your work before you're done pouring it onto the…

— Jeff Bollow

“The endorsements on books aren’t entirely impartial. Unbeknownst to the average reader, blurbs are more often than not from the writer’s best…

— Rachel Donadio

Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

— Salman Rushdie

“and what is writ, is writ, Would it were worthier! but I am not now That which I have been”

— George Gordon Byron

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

— Audrey Niffenegger

“It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.”

— Lemony Snicket

“Many writers are recognized for their PHD mentality--Poor, Hungry and Driven.”

— Trish Jackson

“I would exchange all that I have written for the next thing.”

— William Stafford

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.

— Rick Riordan

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU”

— A.C. Grayling

An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

— Evariste Galois

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

— Joanne Harris

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

— Jenny Holzer

If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun.

— Eoin Colfer

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

— James Patterson

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

— Amadou Hampate Ba

Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

— Mark Plotkin