Writer Quotes · Page 384

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

— Naomi Novik

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

— Anonymous

I read two books at a time. One that is heavy and one that makes for light reading.

— Vikram Bhatt

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

— Jerzy Kosinski

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

— Rod Serling

“All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

“No one knows the scent of books, or the scent of perfume, until someone opens them.”

— Omaid Ahmadzai

Mistake is a single page of life but relation is a complete book. So dont lose a full book for a single…

— Anonymous

“A librarian can’t live by books alone, and I wouldn’t eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.”

— Mike Mullin

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else…

— Italo Calvino

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what…

— Karen DeCrow

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

— Steve Erickson

“Books,' I say sleepily. 'They don't change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it's still…

— Truus Matti

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find…

— Alice James

“Reading leads to knowledge,knowledge leads to empowerment. Empowerment leads to greatness...you want to be great don't you?

— Timothy Pina

Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through…

— Christopher Nolan

Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up…

— J. K. Rowling

My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think…

— Patricia MacLachlan

In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment…

— Pico Iyer

“I'm one of those people who, if time permits, can read more than one book at a time, sometimes three. I don't…

— Janalyn Robnett

For the last few years, I've enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I've grown up,…

— Himesh Patel

“I use a library the same way I’ve been describing the creative process as a writer — I don’t go in with…

— Ray Bradbury

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two…

— Ross Perot

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

— Aidan Chambers

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

— Irvine Welsh

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

— Andre Maurois

“don't talk about all the things you're going to write; put pen to paper instead.”

— Shirley Johnson

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

— Sinead O'Connor

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

— Juliana Hatfield

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

— Julianna Baggott

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

— George Wald

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.

— William Zinsser

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

— Larry Niven

“Double Sword Tavern.” Tristan said, reading out loud. “Sounds charming and inviting.”

— B.C. Morin

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

— Michael Pena

“GREAT THINGS sometimes come from rewriting under pressure.”

— Lynn Hunt

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

— Lauren Groff

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan