Writer Quotes · Page 408

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

— Natalie Goldberg

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

— Jennifer Lynch

“A good book nourishes the soul Like good food nourishes the body.”

— Jo Ann Gilbert Stover

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

— Leslie What

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

— Ezra Pound

“The three hardest parts of writing a novel are writing the beginning, the middle, and the end.”

— Beth Revis

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

— Octavia E. Butler

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking…

— Laurie R. King

“When you talk to an author or an artist, you’re only ever getting half the story. We are crafting narratives for you.…

— Phoebe North

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and…

— Adrienne Rich

“Book reviewer: Very often a writer who has never been published taking out their frustrations on a writer who has.”

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden…

— Tiffany Madison

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and…

— Andie MacDowell

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled…

— Henry David Thoreau

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was…

— Jonathan Raban

I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh,…

— Jackie Collins

Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because…

— Umberto Eco

Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I…

— Orson Scott Card

“Randy does a sorting procedure on the diving books now: he ignores anything that has color photographs, or that appears to have…

— Neal Stephenson

No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed,…

— Kami Garcia

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also…

— Octavio Paz

Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,…

— Anne Rice

“when TV like the radio before it has been swallowed alive by the next big thing. My stories will still be here,…

— Shawn Hilton

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

— Ben Elton

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

— Colum McCann

“Your life is your story, so make choices that will write it the way you want it to be written”

— Brooke Stonex

If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.

— Jed Diamond

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

— Jason Schwartzman

People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

— Seamus Heaney

Books..Are Our Best Frndzz…It Has No Demnads,No Complani…Always Beside U...So Mind It...

— Hrittick Dutta Nilavo

“The best rule of reading will be a method from nature, and not a mechanical one of hours and pages.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read . . . or didn’t read.”

— Charlaine Harris

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

— Henry Ward Beecher

If you want to be a writer, first and foremost, you must write. If you write, you're a writer. Period.

— Rebecca Serle

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. —THOMAS CARLYLE,”

— Anonymous

As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

— Lionel Shriver

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

— Anonymous