Writer Quotes · Page 434

“There's more to life than what you read in books. You'll find that out.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

— Jim Bishop

Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.

— Amanda Harlech

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

— Doris Lessing

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

— Jeanette Winterson

“David Goodis didn’t write novels, he wrote suicide notes.”

— Ed Gorman

'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.

— Maurice Herzog

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

— Phil Collins

There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my…

— Robert H. Schuller

“Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of…

— Mark Edmundson

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,…

— Ray Bradbury

Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle…

— Maryanne Wolf

I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score…

— Nicole Krauss

“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.”

— Anonymous

“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your…

— Holly Black

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I know 'Dabangg' has some pre-requisites. Every film has some requisites that you have to fulfill. I sat down with my writer…

— Arbaaz Khan

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting…

— David Quammen

“Keeping this journal causes tension as much as it calms it. The writing busies my hands and occupies my mind, but there’s…

— Wayne Gladstone

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to…

— Theodora Goss

“The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested.…

— Jaron Lanier

Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring…

— Ben Dolnick

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get…

— Joseph Campbell

Living our lifes is like writing a book. It starts the same for all of us and the ending is unknown for…

— Andreea-Paula Calugaru

A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.

— Pico Iyer

“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.”

— André Aciman

“There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.”

— Cecelia Ahern

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

— Donna Leon

I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.

— Denny Hamlin

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

— Roger Ascham

“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.”

— Y.K. Raikou

I never knew a writer yet whotook the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

— Natalie Goldberg

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

— Susan Sontag

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

— Lena Dunham

All I've done is give you a book. You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it.

— Freida J. Riley

“Write bravely but for goodness sakes, use chapters.”

— Courtney Worth Young

“do not write what comes to mind. write for the minds to come.”

— ryan england