Writer Quotes · Page 462

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

— Laverne Cox

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

— Jane Green

“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.”

— Ninni Holmqvist

“Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.”

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

— Jeanette Winterson

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

— Brewster Ghiselin

“And we’re going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take…

— Ernest Hemingway

“You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages”

— john j geddes

“If I am willing to read a book in its entirety, I will give it five stars. I do not list books…

— Paula Shene

Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

My two bits here are that writing is a solitary job but there are times when one needs to discuss the work,…

— Sriram Raghavan

I have 52 excerpts of books that I sometimes give players when I want to reach them and then hundreds of quotes.

— Jesse Marsch

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

When you're worrying about crime rates, go help teach kids to read at a young age so that their chances for climbing…

— Neil Bush

“Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting…

— Alan Bradley

“My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I…

— A.K. Kuykendall

“One day after the exams, the teachers sat at their desks correcting papers while the pupils read comics, played chess or cards…

— Alasdair Gray

Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role…

— John K. Samson

The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death…

— Wilbur Smith

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is…

— Jeanette Winterson

Because of my poor writing posture, I started walking in the forest every day, and I found it a potent place to…

— Morris Gleitzman

“That's why I read so much. A book isn't going to hurt me. A book isn't going to form some opinion about…

— Paulette Mahurin

I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to…

— Thighpaulsandra

“There's no reason, to talk about the books I read. But still I do.”

— Morrissey

“Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact.”

— Saru Singhal

If life was a book I would read it all then re-read the amazing chapters.

— Damien Cantrell

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.

— Stephen King

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

— Dorothy Day

“Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.”

— Kellie Elmore

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

— Linda Lael Miller

“When writing, aspire to sell your words by weight, not by volume.”

— Al Boudreau

Books has its own world and I am one of those people captivated to enter its magical door

— Jermilyn Inot

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.

— Yannis Philippakis

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

— Fran Lebowitz

“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...”

— John Geddes

Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.

— Angie Thomas