Writer Quotes · Page 377

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

— Orson Scott Card

“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.”

— Henry Miller

I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

— Naomi Alderman

I love stories and behaviors. And everyone has a story to tell, big or small, always fascinating.

— Anonymous

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

— Susan Sontag

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

— Mavis Gallant

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

— Naomi Alderman

They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em

— Zack de la Rocha

I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing.…

— Michael Morpurgo

Of course, life experience changes and adds to writing. And observations change too, where you put yourself in relation to other people.

— Amanda Shires

“All books matter,” she assures and redirects her attention. “All books. Fiction. Non-fiction. How Tos and Self Help manuals. All books serve…

— Xavier Neal

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

— Ann Beattie

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do…

— Angela Yee

A friend is a book that needs to be read to find its inner beauty. You're one of the best books ever…

— Jeigh Ilano

I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.

— Lennie James

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book,…

— Anita Desai

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of…

— Joshua Foer

At its most basic we are discussing a learned skill (writing), but do we not agree that sometimes the most basic skills…

— Stephen King

What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so…

— Dolly Parton

“Brother Luca Pacioli. It took him thirty years to write.” The book is bound in deepest green with a tooled border of…

— Hilary Mantel

I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki…

— Sarah Kay

“Lyra at eighteen sitting intent and absorbed in Duke Humfrey’s Library with the alethiometer and a pile of leather-bound books. Tucking the…

— Philip Pullman

Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful…

— Patti Smith

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Amazon is winning the ebook revolution, but it may lose the war.”

— Jason Merkoski

I sit down and I write and I make sure that it follows the code of Songwriting Craft 101.

— Van Hunt

“Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.”

— Aldous Huxley

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

— Lisa Scottoline

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.

— Wally Lamb

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

— Bill Barich

“Noooo They can't burn up Books aren't any good when they're well done You can't cook them that long”

— Mizuki Nomura

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

— Clifton Fadiman

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

— Annie Proulx

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

— Russell Smith

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

— Nick Flynn

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

— Umberto Eco

My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.

— Eddie Trunk