Writer Quotes · Page 356

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

— Gene Fowler

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.

— H. L. Mencken

“Reading,” I said. “Books. It’s pretty sexy. I like women who read.” - Rip”

— Kailin Gow

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

— Sara Bareilles

“What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?”

— Kelly Gallagher

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved…

— Jan Karon

Imagine you're the words than write yourself. You're the pen, your heart is what you write.

— Jeremy Limn

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

— John Hodgman

“To these things do writers sink; and then the critics tell them that they “talk for effect”; and then the writers answer:…

— G.K. Chesterton

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

— Erica Jong

I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it;…

— Vogue Williams

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had…

— James A. Michener

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

— Wendy Beckett

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is…

— James H. Billington

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

— Roberto Bolano

The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should…

— Peter Turchi

“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the…

— Thomas C. Foster

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized…

— Louise Penny

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote…

— Henning Mankell

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed…

— Lynn Coady

“When other children dreamed of mansions with fountains and big silky beds and servants to do their bidding, this was what Belle…

— Liz Braswell

“I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started,…

— Sheila Hageman

“A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

— Neil Gaiman

“Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.”

— Nicole Fende

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

— Gerald Asher

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

— Elizabeth Bishop

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly.”

— Ken Scott

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

— Anonymous

My favorite book growing up was 'The Little Prince.'

— Antoni Porowski

“The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

No one stays true. It's like an addiction cuz ain't no one real...it's all fiction.

— Anonymous

“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.

— William Kittredge

“It is far more seemly to have thy Studie full of Bookes, than thy Purse full of money. ”

— John Lyly

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense… It's insanity by definition.

— Jo Beverley

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

— Kinky Friedman

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald