Writer Quotes · Page 339

My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

— Sara Zarr

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.

— Lady Gaga

If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.

— Miley Cyrus

“Life is like a book. You read one page at a time, and hope for a good ending.” ― J.B. Taylor”

— J.B. Taylor

When books leave you physically and emotionally drained, you know it was a good one.

— Anonymous

It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.

— Nicholas G. Carr

“Sometimes writing is hard. You know what’s not hard? Watching Netflix. That’s easy.”

— Beth Revis

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

— Bruno Bettelheim

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it…

— John Dos Passos

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

— Herta Muller

Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing…

— Amanda Foreman

It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows…

— Anton Chekhov

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get…

— Anne Lamott

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose…

— David Mitchell

“Writing is lonely, it's an intimate talk with the undead, with the unborn, with the absent, with strangers , with the readers…

— Rebecca Solnit

I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The…

— Diablo Cody

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word…

— James Laughlin

“-and finally, to all of you who've come here tonight to celebrate children's books: every time you find the right, the necessary…

— Katherine Applegate

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“And so, with a torn sleeve and a keyboard on which cigarette ash can rest, writers ended up arsonists of recycled material…

— Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis

There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same…

— Paula Gosling

My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been…

— Dodie Smith

I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

— Dan Futterman

“Life is noisy. Reading is quiet time for the soul.”

— William Benet

“This book is the book you have just read. It’s done.”

— Neil Gaiman

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

— James A. Baldwin

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

— Alice Paul

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

— Michael Jackson

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

— Dolly Parton

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

— John Keats

“Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?”

— Michael Gruber

“Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties.”

— Patricia O'Hara

For me, writing something down was the only road out.

— Anne Tyler

Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

— Anonymous

“Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty”

— Ring Lardner

I like to write, but being a busy mother, it is difficult to sit down and write at a stretch.

— Navya Nair