Writer Quotes · Page 417

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.

— Scott D. Anthony

Books allowed my imagination to take flight - and it hasn't landed yet.

— Ynn Payne

“The problem with ebooks is you can’t get booger smears on the pages.”

— Jarod Kintz

I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.

— Sophie Dahl

I've always been a writer and have always loved writing.

— Shaun King

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

— John McGahern

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

— Peter Brimelow

“My interest in books started as a child. I had a voracious appetite for reading. It’s my mom’s fault really, because she…

— Catherine Cruzan

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

— George Orwell

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from…

— Vijay Seshadri

No matter how beautiful the paper, artwork, printing, and binding, I'm seldom drawn to a book unless it's by a writer I…

— Michael Dirda

A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind;…

— Margaret Walker

In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In…

— Elaine Equi

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's…

— Christopher Koch

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

— El Lissitzky

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…

— Doris Lessing

“And I see you have not resisted their lure either.” He motioned toward her books. “Might I look at your selections?” She…

— Jess Michaels

If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and…

— Thomas Merton

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men…

— Anthony Trollope

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one…

— Gertrude Stein

People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true…

— Dan Chaon

“Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the…

— L.M. Montgomery

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have…

— Mark Twain

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

— Joseph Addison

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

— Katherine Center

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

— Vince Vaughn

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

— Anonymous

“The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

— Samuel Beckett

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

— Elias Canetti

Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

— Stephen Vizinczey

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

— Joanne Harris

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

— Arthur Ashe

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

— Francis Bacon

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

— Mark Twain

I could use a writer to balance my flows. But I never share my thoughts, This is all a nigga knows.

— Drake

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

— Donald Miller

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

— Isaac D'Israeli