Writer Quotes · Page 406

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

— Charles Bukowski

I have written many works to accompany Old Church Slavonic texts.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

— A. B. Yehoshua

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Description is the color in the canvas of your story.”

— M. Kirin

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

“After all, she understood people so well, as well as Fredrick understood his library.”

— Sarah Holman

“I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix)”

— Marion Dane Bauer

“I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would…

— Janette Rallison

I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't…

— Susan Straight

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to…

— Sarah McLachlan

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all…

— Sara Sheridan

It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my…

— Emma Watson

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported…

— Scott Turow

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers…

— Samantha Hunt

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“Though books were potentially harmful, novels were all the more dangerous. The path of fiction could easily mislead you into the cosmos…

— Elif Shafak

Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to…

— Tim Winton

“There are other letters, from the heirs of fictional magnates, from the widows of oil barons, from the legal representatives of incarcerated…

— Teju Cole

“Green goo bubbles in a cauldron in the center of all this chaos. On a pedestal in front of it, a book…

— Rita Webb

If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must…

— William Zinsser

The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and…

— Marian Keyes

It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three…

— MaryJanice Davidson

“That’s the origin of the number, and how it became a theme for this book.”

— A.R. Wise

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

— Lev Grossman

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

— Rita Mae Brown

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

— Mark Leibovich

I do not have much time for relaxation, but when I can, I like to read.

— Claudio Ranieri

I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.

— David Shields

As a writer, you look for inspiration wherever you can get it.

— Michael Connelly

“... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.”

— Lisa Kleypas

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

— Pam Houston

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

— Anonymous

I want to tell stories that make people feel less alone.

— Sophie Thatcher

I was a writer before I was a wrestler when I was in the WWE.

— Enzo Amore

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

— Ann Richards

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

— Diane Setterfield

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

— Norman MacCaig

“Of making many books there is no end: and much study is an affliction of the flesh.”

— Ecclesiastes