Writer Quotes · Page 502

“As much as I hate to admit it, books have limitations. Over”

— Daisy Hernandez

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

— Hugh Leonard

Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.

— Christine Sneed

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

— John Grisham

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

— Mick Farren

I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!

— Ashley Madekwe

I'm excited to go study and read and immerse myself in something.

— Sharon Van Etten

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I…

— Lorrie Moore

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we…

— Franz Kafka

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing…

— Annie Proulx

“Never give birth to children thoughtlessly!'' I want to shout it out loud.That is why, stroke by faltering stroke, I've written this…

— Sayo Masuda

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

— Nicholas Royle

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks…

— Anatole France

An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and…

— Ben Ames Williams

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea…

— Jefferson Mays

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of…

— Arundhati Roy

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to…

— Martin Amis

“[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The…

— Richard de Bury

When I was younger, I dreaded having to write. I would find every possible excuse not to sit down at the typewriter…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the…

— Clive Barnes

“Instead of discussing with myself every morning whether I feel inspired or not, I step into my office every day at nine…

— Peter Prange

If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't…

— Terry Brooks

Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the…

— Christopher Isherwood

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“After much research I've found the secret to publishing: Write excellent books. Write lots of them.”

— Liana Brooks

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

— Edward Gibbon

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.

— Andrew Scott

“Eli Lazaroff stepped into the arena, looking more like a librarian than a warrior.”

— Bella Forrest

As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.

— Bei Dao

“...'good writing' means compelling ideas clothed in words.”

— Betsey Lerner

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

— Salvatore Scibona

Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.

— Valerie Jarrett

Dont like sittin the pen it stinks, but in brooklyn we sit in the pens like ink.

— Papoose

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

— David McCullough

“Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.”

— Virginia Woolf

I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

— Stephen King

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

— Robert Stone

An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots.

— Rajkumar Hirani