Writer Quotes · Page 498

I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.

— Carrie Fisher

You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

— Kate Winslet

“He is holding a book. Inside the book is the Universe.”

— Neil Gaiman

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

— Ralph Fletcher

“Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!”

— Kelley Lovelace

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away.

— Tim O'Reilly

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

— Lizz Winstead

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so…

— Anjelica Huston

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

— Simone de Beauvoir

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a…

— Stephen Leigh

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will…

— Carolyn Wells

As a writer, you understand how hard it is to build up backstory for characters, so you can have impactful moments. You…

— Cory Barlog

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

— Dean Koontz

“. . . this girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another.”

— Gregory Maguire

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with…

— Saib Tabrizi

I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me,…

— Rose Wilder Lane

“And then, on September 11, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days…

— Barack Obama

I was strangely looking forward to writing about my DUI arrest, only because I've known for four years that I was gonna…

— Drew Magary

My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure -…

— Andrea Barrett

All you have is the writer's imagination. You have a very limited time to take this imaginary person and bring the details…

— John Malkovich

I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his…

— Ayn Rand

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled…

— H. G. Wells

Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when…

— Steve Guttenberg

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

— John W. Campbell

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

— Mason Cooley

“distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)”

— Seneca

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

— Tom Stoppard

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

— John Boyne

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

— Mavis Gallant

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

— John Travolta

“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”

— V.S. Naipaul

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

— Alberto Manguel

“Sometimes I just want to shout, "READ ALL MY FAVORITE BOOKS!”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters.”

— Ray Bradbury

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

— Italo Calvino

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda