Writer Quotes · Page 332

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

— Manuel Rivas

'Cheers' was a good first step because I got to write my own material.

— Harry Anderson

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

— Patricia MacLachlan

“But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.”

— Anonymous

“No 'jump into a book' wasnt meant literally, and Yes, you are now banned from the Ferndale library.”

— Librarians for Social Change

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

— John Banville

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

— James Wolcott

I try hard to write an happy quote, but ends up with sad quotes.

— Bhar

I don't put a lot of pressure on myself when I'm writing. It feels like if I come up with something good,…

— Moby

I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

“Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may…

— Philippa Gregory

I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting…

— Deb Caletti

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write…

— Jonah Peretti

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

— Jonathan Lethem

When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what…

— Tara Westover

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

— Jennifer Weiner

Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew…

— Jasper Fforde

In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in…

— Thomas Huxley

“And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Do the books that writers don't write matter? It's easy to forget them, to assume that the apocryphal bibliography must contain nothing…

— Julian Barnes

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The…

— Dwight V. Swain

Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud…

— Anne Frank

“They were allowed a little touch at each of the books, but only with their fingertips tonight, literature cannot bear dirty hands;…

— Halldór Laxness

I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study…

— Junot Diaz

Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

— David Foster Wallace

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

— Natalie Goldberg

When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

— Rebecca West

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

— Dana Gioia

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

— E. M. Forster

“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.”

— Toni Morrison

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

— Rick Moody

“You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.”

— Tom Winton

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

— Jose Saramago

It's really important that we look after our libraries.

— Zoe Ball

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

— Shannon Hale

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

— David Herbert Donald

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

— Lin Yutang

“A book is from your heart and mind, it is your love put to words.”

— Michael Anthony

“A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.”

— Amy Riekhof

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

— William S. Burroughs