Writer Quotes · Page 387

Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places.

— William Walker

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

— Walter Dean Myers

I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

— Tea Obreht

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

— Giancarlo Esposito

“Books aren't made of pages and words.They are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.”

— Harlequin

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

— Karl Lagerfeld

“You get a happy feeling helping someone read. You feel sort of like a wizard.”

— Joanne Rocklin

Books aren't just made of papers, pages and words. They're made of hopes, dreams and possibilities.

— Anonymous

There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just…

— Leonard Cohen

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that…

— Jo Nesbo

Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough…

— Walter Kirn

“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their own feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try…

— Tom King

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

— Roberto Bolano

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need…

— Ryohgo Narita

“Sometimes I write about the forest, sometimes I write about the trees, and occasionally I’ll write about the lumberjack. Actually, the lumberjack…

— Jarod Kintz

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You…

— Vikram Seth

You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United…

— James Madison

If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's…

— S. E. Hinton

“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite…

— Ray Bradbury

“Schopenhauer remarked that buying books would be better if you could also buy the time to read them. Books are different from…

— John Durham Peters

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have…

— Samuel Johnson

“And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written…

— Ray Bradbury

I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in…

— Samuel R. Delany

Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.

— Harold Pinter

“When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I write when I get bored, when I have nothing to do.

— Lonzo Ball

“why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true”

— Kinky Friedman

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

— Sophie Thompson

It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'

— Katherine Dunn

If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.

— Kevin Nealon

Reading is something most people do every day and I didn't know it would mean so much to me.

— Jay Blades

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

— Phillip Lopate

Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

— Anne Lamott

I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.

— Lauren Lapkus

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

— Alma Alexander

“Writers are not the crowd,they are the voice to the crowd.”

— Alloy Francis

Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?

— Will Self

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

— Andrea Hirata

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

— Curtis Sittenfeld