Writer Quotes · Page 504

“Writing is a gift. To be good at your gift you need to keep writing.”

— Lisa Powell

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

— Lois Lowry

“Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out.”

— Clifton L. Taulbert

“I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.”

— Jane Austen

Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned.

— Hermann Hesse

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

— Stephen King

“There's something kind of heroic about being a bookseller.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

— Nora Roberts

I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when…

— Rupi Kaur

“Books are a form of magic—” the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, “—because they span time…

— Tad Williams

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends…

— Marianne Wiggins

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and…

— Kenny Chesney

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often…

— Edward Albee

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax,…

— Richard Carlson

If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.

— Emily Barton

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a…

— Eleanor Catton

“The patron gets comfortable in bed and opens up the book -- it opens tentatively -- and the patron bends the open…

— Don Borchert

You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written -…

— Jamais Cascio

Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within…

— Henry Roth

We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us,…

— Alain de Botton

“Writers are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those…

— John Grisham

“Heartache may be bad for the soul, but it's great for bookshops. It's when we are at our lowest romantic ebb that…

— Alain de Botton

You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some…

— Philip Roth

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

— Matt Groening

“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...”

— John Geddes

“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.”

— Virginia Frances Schwartz

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

— George Orwell

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

— Toni Morrison

“If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader. -Suzanne Steele”

— Suzanne Steele

“Three possessions you should prize: A field, a friend, and a book.”

— Hai guan zong shui wu si shu China Hai guan zong shui wu si shu

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

— PJ Harvey

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

— Maya Angelou

“When you read and write good books a divine force will turn you good”

— Smart Oyejide

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

— Bristol Palin

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

— Garry Wills

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to become a librarian.”

— Paulina Porizkova

I can go off-point, I can go off-word, I can go off-paragraph, but I can never go off message.

— Paul Heyman