Writer Quotes · Page 495

Books seem so much more interesting in the book store.

— Anonymous

“What is it with you and that book?" Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.”

— John Green

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,” answered Julián.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

— Paulina Porizkova

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

— John Updike

“Sometimes those we love break us to bind us whole within the transition.”

— robert m drake

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.

— William Safire

You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff,…

— Mick Jones

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

— Richard Whately

“I read for fun and to escape the mundaneness that is reality, to get lost in make-believe worlds where good always triumphs…

— Erica Cope

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

— Gene Fowler

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much…

— Brian Aldiss

I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.

— Lily Cole

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something.…

— Doris Lessing

Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is…

— Tao Lin

“[...] as I have seen with other people whose sense of their work is vocational rather than pragmatic, my desire to write,…

— Stephanie Dowrick

Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story…

— Amos Oz

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of…

— Tom Stoppard

“Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and…

— Cassandra Giovanni

“Writing is so much more problematic than drawing, full of moral pitfalls, ambiguity, public responsibility. If you record a day of your…

— Kate Millett

Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand…

— Megan Chance

... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.”

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

— Bill Simmons

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

— Graham Nash

“Writers that don't write, end up talking to themselves...”

— Carina Round

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

— Jean Paul

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

— Paulo Coelho

“I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.”

— Christy Hall

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

— Gabrielle Zevin

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

— Hortense Calisher

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

— Robert Crumb

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

— Stephen Cole

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

— James Johnson

“We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.”

— Joseph Monninger

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

— Donna Tartt

The only time I write with someone else is with one of my friends but I write everything myself.

— Sabrina Claudio

I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.

— Penelope Lively