Writer Quotes · Page 392

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

— Mason Cooley

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

— Desiderius Erasmus

After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'

— Anthony Minghella

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

— Stephen Fry

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

— Bill Moyers

“Reading is dangerous, because the more you read, the more you realise how little you know.”

— S.E. SEVER

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases,…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the…

— Italo Calvino

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still…

— Hugo Chavez

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart…

— Vartan Gregorian

The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the…

— Christopher Darden

Reading is important because it makes you smarter and lets you find out about things you're curious about.

— Alex Wolff

“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on…

— Colette Freedman

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I love to write. I'm not necessarily a joke writer, but I think I can find a lot of comedy in humanity,…

— Heidi Gardner

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories…

— Don DeLillo

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny…

— Nikki Grimes

“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be…

— Stephen King

At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year…

— Anna Quindlen

“People who make snide comments to authors like "anyone can write a book" or "well, you did it, so obviously I can/it…

— Michelle M. Pillow

Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how…

— P. G. Wodehouse

“It was the fangirl code for every book geek: read, chat, squeal. Re-read, chat, and squeal again, until it’s all over and…

— Rachael Wade

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

— Bill Watterson

“Writing is the skillful expression of feelings through the vehicle of words”

— Christian Michael

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

— Betty Smith

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Your pen must not only create words, it must carve a story into something touching human or beyond.”

— Nyhterides

Just start writing and you'll find what you want to say.

— Kurt Braunohler

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

— Anita Brookner

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

— Anthony Powell

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

— Neil Gaiman

“There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.”

— Graham Greene

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

— Glenn Howerton

The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

— Robert Benchley

A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.

— Dara Wier

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement...

— Virginia Woolf