Writer Quotes · Page 452

If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.

— Viv Albertine

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.

— Helen Dunmore

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

— Walter Benjamin

Dive into a book as though diving into water, poverty awaits him for he who does not go there...

— JTC

“The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.”

— Pringle Kennedy

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

— Christopher Nolan

“The sentence is the very foundation of writing; a beautifully crafted sentence is a work of art.”

— Jeanne Voelker

“The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world.”

— after Richard Ford

“A book is an experiment, and as with all experiments, there is a sense of uncertainty about how it will turn out.”

— Jerome Groopman

There are moments when I resent even buying a book. But browsing is wonderful. I like to go and browse everywhere, even…

— Milena Canonero

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write…

— Ernest Hemingway

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the…

— Joel Edgerton

Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and…

— Michiel Huisman

Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those…

— J. C. Ryle

“I don't know what I'd do if for some reason I was no longer able to write. Commit murder, perhaps. At the…

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it…

— Tracie Podger

Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life.…

— Lorrie Moore

When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does"…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe…

— Patrick deWitt

The most important thing as a comic and a writer is to have a strong point of view. I have one and…

— Heather McDonald

When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's…

— Dashiell Hammett

Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient…

— Howard Jacobson

In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,'…

— Scott Turow

“ Una casa senza libreria è una casa senza dignità, — ha qualcosa della locanda, — è come una città senza librai,…

— Edmondo De Amicis

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

— Studs Terkel

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

— Iris Murdoch

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Time spent reading a book, even a bad one, is never wasted.”

— Stewart Stafford

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting the quill back in the goose

— Fred Allen

Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.

— Rodrigo Rey Rosa

I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.

— Jim Goad

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

— Hank Azaria

I aspire to write like Robert Wyatt. I take a lot of inspiration from the way he writes.

— Weyes Blood

If you want something to happen, then you make it happen. Only you can be the author of your own story.

— Anonymous

“Writing is like crawling across the desert- with each publication being an oasis.”

— R.S. Lehner

“Every human has a book inside them hidden, you just need to be awakened enough, to see it.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

— Jeremy Collier

Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

— Sara Sheridan

“Reading means borrowing. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorisms