Writer Quotes · Page 477

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

— George Eliot

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

— John Steinbeck

“A poor attempt at writing is better than no attempt at all.”

— Ksenia Anske

My wife and I sometimes read books together. It's kind of like bed talk.

— Taboo

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

— Mason Cooley

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

— Maurice Sendak

“A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.”

— Aman Jassal

The way I write possibly shouldn't be turned on serious things.

— Giles Coren

“With exotic settings, sensual conflict, and an intriguing hint of Italian history, Katherine Bone's contemporary debut captivated me!" Roxanne St. Claire, New…

— Katherine Bone

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die...

— Margaret Drabble

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the…

— Jimmy Barnes

Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I…

— Matt de la Pena

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

— Jack Canfield

“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had…

— George Orwell

“It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families,…

— Bob P. Buford

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always…

— Robert Pattinson

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I…

— Linda Sue Park

I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and…

— Alexandra Adornetto

Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the…

— Sven Birkerts

“If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it’s his way, but if all…

— Alan Marshall

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say.…

— Salman Rushdie

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists…

— Rebecca Solnit

“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture…

— Michel Houellebecq

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

— Rachel Joyce

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

If I ever write a book, 'I Should Have Worn Comfortable Shoes' would be the title.

— Jacky Rosen

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

— Joss Whedon

“A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read.”

— Alice Hoffman

“When I read I get lost into the book my mind is set into the setting." - Kate”

— Kate

“Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.”

— Julie Rodelli

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

— Virginia Woolf

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

— Patrick O'Brian

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

— Michael Chabon

When I'm in the studio with a writer, I don't mind for them to take the lead and show me something new.

— Stefflon Don

i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...

— Yukio Mishima

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.

— Natalie Prass

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

— Noah Baumbach

A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.

— Howard Jacobson