Writer Quotes · Page 479

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading.”

— Betty Smith

“Life is wonderful when you're the one to write it.”

— Coco J. Ginger

“and who writes, he says, because he finds it easier than talking.”

— John J. Winters

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

— Alistair MacLeod

The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.

— Joan Didion

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

— Andre Maurois

“Keep writing for writing is sustenance for the soul.”

— Christopher Broom

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

— Helen Exley

“...after our weekly trip to the library, she cleared the top of her dresser and set out her week's reading, stood them…

— Eleanor Brown

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions…

— Bernard Cornwell

I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

— Khushwant Singh

“Yet any distinction between literature and life is misleading. Literature for me is not merely the best part of life; it is…

— Harold Bloom

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me…

— Gretchen Rubin

We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that…

— Andrew Goodman

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use…

— Kevin Powers

Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit…

— Teju Cole

“Why do I read? I just can't help myself. I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.…

— Gary Paulsen

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen,…

— Annabelle Selldorf

You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be…

— Deborah Eisenberg

Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that…

— Linda Pastan

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up…

— Isaac Asimov

My nervous breakdown last season, when I was bemoaning the fact that I'll never have time to read all the great books…

— Jon Cryer

“I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity”

— Malcolm X

“I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.”

— Ann Marie Frohoff

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

— William Faulkner

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

— Tabitha King

“Writing style can be descriptive without being wordy - and wordy without being descriptive”

— Rayne Hall

“But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.”

— Leslie Cockburn

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

— Zack Snyder

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

— Teri Garr

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

— Jan Garbarek

“I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them”

— Barbara Kingsolver

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

— John Hodgman

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.

— Sue Townsend

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

— E. L. Doctorow

I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.

— Terry Pratchett

It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching.

— Lady Amelia Windsor