Writer Quotes · Page 323

Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.

— Julia Glass

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

— Mel Brooks

“A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind.”

— K.D. Green

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get…

— Bonnie Friedman

I take mental notes on what people done to me and done for me.

— Jasari

I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“come on whats wrong with reading fill it in your brain”

— Jeremy Lam

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

— Louise Brown

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.

— Steve Toltz

“A library is a miracle. A place where you can learn just about anything, for free. A place where your mind can…

— Josh Hanagarne

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

— Maya Angelou

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

— Jim James

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient…

— John Gardner

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I…

— Leon Russell

“The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.”

— Susan Straight

The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to…

— Nick Hornby

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that…

— Michael Morpurgo

Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I…

— Stan Lee

“...And as if she had opened a hidden door, I felt the patterned surface break and give way, and the words let…

— Julie Schumacher

“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know…

— Laura Furman

When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in…

— Christina Baldwin

There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the…

— Rachel Simon

Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies.…

— Edward Abbey

Hemingway was a big influence - 'A Farewell to Arms,' though I disapproved of the later Hemingway.

— David Dellinger

I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.

— Karin Slaughter

“Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.”

— Holly Black

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

— Lois Lowry

“A professional writer is an amateur who never gave up.”

— Richard Bach

Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

— Tom Upton

I am only a fighter. In the form of a writer. In the form of a poet.

— Wale

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

— Richard Ford

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I want to be able to write on my walls. I think that's the big thing.

— Justin Vernon

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

— Dr. Seuss

“ONE TREANT TO BLOOM THE LEAFLET TO MANY : JM EVERY BOOK TURNS THE PAGE : METALLICA”

— Jonathan McKinney

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

One becomes great by what one reads and not by what one writes

— Ritu Ghatourey