Writer Quotes · Page 472

Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts.

— Andrew Guzaldo

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

— Cynthia Ozick

One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books.

— Narendra Modi

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

“Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.”

— Anonymous

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.

— Patrick Dennis

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

— William Gibson

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are…

— Kameron Hurley

Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.

— Tessa Dare

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite -…

— Joe Hill

“I used to be a bumper sticker kind of writer. Now I’m more developed, and my writing often takes up whole bumpers.…

— Jarod Kintz

“I realized right away that books could take us out of ourselves, and make us larger. Even provide us with human connections…

— Masha Hamilton

I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

— Barbara Pym

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

— Rumi

“This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for…

— Rebecca Raisin

Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of…

— Jonathan Franzen

When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of…

— Moshe Kasher

Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor…

— James Thurber

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I…

— Jennifer Egan

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads…

— John Green

Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough…

— Stanley Kunitz

“I look forward all day to evening, and then I put an "engaged" on the door and get into my nice red…

— Jean Webster

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

— Neil Gaiman

“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.”

— Jason E. Hodges

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

— Joachim von Ribbentrop

I started writing, but now I have too much to write about. - Kalyani Rajalingham

— Kalyani Rajalingham

He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.

— William Godwin

“I collect new books the way my girlfriends buy designer handbags.”

— Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

— Jane Yolen

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

— Emma Thompson

“An aspiring writer should write one time and edit ten times.”

— Amit Kalantri

“... like a cat that crawls onto the page when you're trying to read.”

— Margaret Atwood

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

— Steven Wright

The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.

— Ann Dowd

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

— Jerry Pournelle

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

If writing were a sport, I would totally have a six pack.

— Kaitlen Dearing

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

— Joseph Addison