Writer Quotes · Page 469

“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.”

— Wayson Choy

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

— M. Night Shyamalan

“great book stands the test of time unlike my good self….”

— Douglas Adams

“Work often gets in the way of more important things, like writing.”

— Paul West

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read”

— Harper Lee

I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

— Jennifer Egan

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

— George Frideric Handel

“Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe…

— David Mitchell

I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move…

— Steven Strogatz

My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to…

— Paul Theroux

“It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you…

— Nahisha McCoy

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less…

— George W. Bush

People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.

— Elif Batuman

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading…

— Kate DiCamillo

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for…

— Alicia Vikander

“As with most things, my approach to writing has been entirely ass-backwards. I first had to become everything but a writer --…

— Quentin R. Bufogle

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but ...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living…

— John Milton

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward…

— Eudora Welty

“You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and…

— Dave Eggers

“Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the…

— Jeanette Winterson

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there…

— Neil Gaiman

She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or…

— Anonymous

When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.…

— Geraldine Brooks

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

— Paul Auster

“a book like this. I wish I had access to such a source”

— Anonymous

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

— Romain Rolland

“I need a job and I want to be a paperback writer...”

— The Beatles

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

— Regis Debray

I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

— Lena Dunham

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

— Andrea Barrett

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

— Trey Anastasio

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

— Shirley Jackson

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

— Albert Camus

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

— India Arie

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

— Sheila Heti

Every word that I say is true all I write its only for you..

— Nishant Grover

“They are so beautiful: your words" she told me. And I said "No, you are!”

— Avijeet Das

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

A book hasn't caused me this much trouble since Where's Waldo went to that barber pole factory.

— Anonymous