Writer Quotes · Page 413

“"It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.”

— Ray Bradbury

“The worth of a book is too be measured by what you can carry away from it.”

— James Bryce

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

— China Mieville

“Books are much better companions to me than people.”

— Rakesh Satyal

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Other people just look so comfortable with a book in their hands - I never feel like that.

— Bob Mortimer

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

— Dennis Ritchie

“People who write novels only write them when they have very little else to write”

— David Markson

It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how…

— Arthur M. Jolly

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The books I like the best are those That give us more than what they say -- They simply open countless doors…

— Rebecca McCann

“A book is a living, breathing thing. It spends the first chapters of its life curled up in the mind, symbiotic with…

— Emily Murdoch

“Wish my life were inside a book So I could turn to the ending, See if it is a love story Or…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people…

— Alice Mattison

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm…

— Elia Suleiman

“Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.”

— Camilo Gomes Jr

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a…

— Julia Glass

“Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and…

— Gudjon Bergmann

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but…

— Sandra Cisneros

“I’ve seen middle grade books criticized by adult readers for leaving things for the reader to figure out, for not having perfect…

— Anne Ursu

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote…

— Annie Besant

Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and…

— John W. Henry

It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure…

— William C. Brown

“Here's the thing: the act of reading changes your life, sometimes in large ways, sometimes in small ways, but every book you…

— Anonymous

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

— Wole Soyinka

In a parallel universe, I'm on a shitty website writing about myself in a parallel universe.

— Nikhil Saluja

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

— Alan Dershowitz

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [ Letter to Max Brod , July 5, 1922]”

— Franz Kafka

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

— M. Night Shyamalan

There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.

— John Wesley Harding

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

— Rick Riordan

READ REFLECT RETREAT RENEW REVISE RECOMMITT . . . ROUNTINELY.

— Randy Vader

“...you must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.”

— Wallace Stegner

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

— Pat Conroy

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“If this book should ever roam, Box its ears and send it home.”

— Jean Webster

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

— Mavis Gallant

. The more you read and the more you write, the betteryou will get -

— Senoraroy

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I actually read each one everytime and send a copy to myself or take a picture of it

— Anonymous