Writer Quotes · Page 447

I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

— Warren Zevon

“Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life?”

— Lauren Morrill

I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I began as a writer and started blogging in 2001, first on politics, anonymously.

— Dana Loesch

“Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice.”

— Virginia Woolf

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

— Julia Alvarez

“An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive...a must read!”

— Maggie Reese

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two…

— E. M. Forster

I am a gay writer, absolutely. And in no way does that fact limit the reach or importance of what I write.

— Garth Greenwell

There's always a problem when you write, something you're trying to resolve, and sometimes a view can be inspiring.

— Hisham Matar

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

— Jack Prelutsky

“I dread that awkward moment when a friend hands you the book that changed his or her life, and it is a…

— Joe Queenan

Writing a memoir begins a process that doesn't necessarily end with publication. You begin to think about family life and stories and…

— Sue Perkins

“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most…

— Irving Stone

Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the…

— Alice Hoffman

“Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping…

— Carmela Dutra

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the…

— Graham Swift

We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic.…

— Will Self

“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can…

— V.S. Naipaul

I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to…

— John Boyne

I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did…

— Paul Johnson

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

— John Irving

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

— Roberto Bolano

I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

— Theodora

With so much of what I write, I'm just constantly wondering out loud, 'Do other people feel this way?'

— Paul Rust

“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard”

— Mala Naidoo

“There will always be enough time to sit with a good book.”

— c.p.Noonen

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

— Francis Spufford

“I never heard of a pretty librarian in my life,” Paula declared.”

— Pamela Morsi

“Reading great books always gives me the worst sleeping disorders.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

— Cyril Connolly

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

— Ernest Hemingway

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

— A. E. van Vogt

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

— Warren Buffett

I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

— Courtney A. Kemp

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

— Eugene Ionesco

“.. Dusting off your books means dusting your mind off.”

— Yasser Kashef