Writer Quotes · Page 363

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

— Robert Cormier

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

— Mason Cooley

Gently stroke your books, dear stranger, and remember they are dust.

— Miljenko Jergovic

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

— Jan Neruda

If the writing is good, I'm there. If it's something I've never done before, I'm up for that, too.

— W. Earl Brown

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

— Zadie Smith

“She knew where she stood, when she stood among books.”

— M.R. Graham

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

— James Franco

Most books about Stanley Kubrick were written by people who never met him and gathered information from articles written by others who…

— Jan Harlan

I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,'…

— Greg Iles

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Dee Dee was very childlike. He had a vivid imagination, and the two books he wrote were 75 per cent fact, 25…

— Marky Ramone

I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what…

— Patrick deWitt

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

— William Zinsser

I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays…

— Amor Towles

“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our…

— Val Edward Simone

“The story-high house of hewn logs is clean and neat, with many rooms,” he wrote, “so that one can be alone if…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't…

— Julia Cameron

“When getting my nose in a book Cured most things short of school, It was worth ruining my eyes To know I…

— Philip Larkin

After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A…

— Robin Sloan

“The living room is dark and low-ceilinged, with bookshelves all along the wall opposite the windows. These books have not made George…

— Christopher Isherwood

And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've…

— Glenn Close

“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned…

— Ray Bradbury

In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written…

— Etgar Keret

“The easiest part of the writing process is whichever part I’m not currently doing.”

— Scott Tracey

“Writing a book should be the best way to break into someone's house.”

— Krishna

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

— Gene Luen Yang

When you aren't doing too many films, people find other things to write about you.

— Arjun Kapoor

“A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.”

— Neil Postman

I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

— Dan Brown

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page or just closing the book.

— Anonymous

“The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.”

— St Augustine

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

— Anna Todd

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

— Sue Townsend

The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.

— Tiffany Darwish

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

— Jodie Foster