Writer Quotes · Page 359

“My library was where I liked to relax because reading had always been my escape.”

— L.P. Dover

“She kept her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.”

— Karen Robards

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

— Michael Cunningham

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

— Mitch Albom

I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.

— Zoe Sugg

When I hear a story, I think about it from the point of view of the audience.

— Catherine Tresa

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

— Jill Abramson

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

— Jeff Bridges

“Mwandishi lazima awe msomaji wa kila aina ya maandishi anayoweza kusoma. Akipanua upeo wake namna hiyo, kila atakachoandika kitaacha nukuu.”

— Enock Maregesi

Write what you would love to read. Finish what you begin to write. Your voice is uniquely yours and we are all…

— Jody Lynn Nye

I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that…

— Uzodinma Iweala

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up…

— J. D. Salinger

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better.…

— Kristen Stewart

“I spill my heart on pure white pages, and let the ink dance and twirl into the splattered story of my soul.”

— Liz Newman

“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.”

— Raymond A. Mar

“Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood,…

— Robert Black

I have been privileged to write across multiple facets of my life: to write romance novels, to write memoir, to write about…

— Stacey Abrams

“I actually like it. It does everything I want a word processing program to do, and it doesn't do anything else. I…

— George R.R. Martin

Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred -…

— Anne Lamott

“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves…

— Lawrence Wright

“It was [John Gardner's] conviction that if the words in the story were blurred because of the author's insensitivity, carelessness, or sentimentality,…

— Raymond Carver

“To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it…

— Clark Ashton Smith

There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of…

— Anthony Bourdain

“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.”

— Donalyn Miller

“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.”

— Gustave Flaubert

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

— Virginia Woolf

“Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level.”

— Richard Ridley

“For knowledge, you should read books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.”

— Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

— Rebecca Ferguson

Even in my most solipsistic moments, I don't regard my literary debut as a matter of global interest.

— Rebecca Front

“Wishing you the best adventures in reading and in life!”

— Sass Cadeaux

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

— George R.R. Martin

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

— Paul Auster

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

— Michael Morpurgo

“The best books inspire you to be better and get up and do something!”

— Storytime Corner

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

— Mark Kurlansky

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

— Anonymous