Writer Quotes · Page 486

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

— Christopher Marlowe

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

— Anita Diament

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three

— Italian Proverb

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

— Anonymous

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

— Rita Mae Brown

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

— Caroline Leavitt

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

— Ryan Holiday

“Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music.…

— Jarod Kintz

“If you want to be a writer you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot,”…

— Ann Handley

“The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as…

— Dee Williams

I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research…

— Douglas Coupland

“When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're…

— Stephen King

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

— Henry David Thoreau

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

— Amitava Kumar

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

— Scarlett Thomas

“The book covers are a crucial part of my work - personally speaking. Particularly because, I cannot write a single word of…

— Abhijit Naskar

What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like…

— Courtney Barnett

I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some…

— Daniel Handler

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go…

— John Trudell

I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the…

— Debra Dean

You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before…

— Bill Gates

“The digital book has no front or back covers; there is no place to assert ownership, and there is nothing to own.…

— Alex Beam

almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by…

— Rona Jaffe

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

— Sara Sheridan

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

— Jeffery Deaver

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.

— Robin Sloan

I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

— Junot Diaz

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

— George Bernard Shaw

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

— Arthur Miller

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.

— Albert Einstein

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

— Bille August

“reading a book is taking a journey" -Kate Source google images reading quotes”

— Kate

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

— Samuel R. Delany

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

— Stephen King

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

— Ben Kingsley

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

— Barbara Tuchman

“Don’t wait for inspiration. She’s a fickle tart. Just write.”

— Ruth Bavetta

You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

— Nick Laird