Writer Quotes · Page 385

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

— Winston Churchill

“I have so many schemes about writing – so much I want to see and feel and do.”

— Paula McLain

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

— Sally Rooney

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

— Robert Burton

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

— Cassandra Clare

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

— Marshall McLuhan

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

— Edward Abbey

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

— Miriam Toews

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the…

— Ralph Ellison

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

— Richard Flanagan

If you have nobody to talk, sit aside with paper and pen, you can see your fingers will write the worlds most…

— Bhargavi

I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds…

— Ruskin Bond

“I think the hardest thing about writing is writing." [Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony,…

— Nora Ephron

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks…

— John Dufresne

Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Wouldn't it be good if we could let teachers do what they do best - teach. Not judge each child on a…

— Sally Gardner

I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making…

— Matthea Harvey

“These books...," she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two…

— Deborah Meyler

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me…

— Melanie Martinez

People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a…

— David McCullough

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after…

— Ernest Hemingway

All writers know in advance that they are not going be able to reproduce in its wonderful fullness the thing that's in…

— Mary Jo Salter

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

— Haruki Murakami

You can always find something better to do than writing when you're at home.

— John Cooper Clarke

I carry a notepad which is 5.5' x 3.8' which fits snugly into my pocket.

— Tim Key

Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

— Angelina Jolie

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

— Ken Kesey

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

— John Banville

“I love reading books. You really get hooked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

— Daniel Radunsky

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

— Morris Gleitzman

Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost.

— Thomas Fuller

“[Pliny the Elder] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.”

— Pliny the Younger

Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics.

— Michelle Dean

I make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible.

— Morgan Saylor

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

— Geddy Lee

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

— Anonymous

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

— Mark Twain

“Books are, I find, the best provisions a man can take with him on life’s journey.”

— Stefan Zweig