Writer Quotes · Page 506

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

— Sandra Cisneros

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

— Jane Austen

Life has many different chapters of story. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book.

— Anonymous

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

— Per Petterson

“Reading books will get you to the door, reading people will get you inside the room.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Wamiqa means the goddess of wind; my dad is a poet and writer in Punjabi and Gabbi is his pseudonym.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

— Amy Harmon

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type. John Le Carre

— John Le Carre

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much…

— Richard Flanagan

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all…

— Dean Koontz

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in…

— Will Blythe

Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder…

— Michael Crummey

“O quam dulcis vita fuit dum sedabamus in quieti . . . inter liborum copias. : 'Oh how sweet life was when…

— Alcuin of York

“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they…

— Shiree Mccarver

“Keep your nose in a book – and keep other people's noses out of which books you choose to stick your nose into!”

— Art Spiegelman

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even…

— Ray Bradbury

I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert…

— Robert Crais

Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months…

— Dinty W. Moore

I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious…

— Sylvia Beach

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book…

— George Orwell

You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll…

— Sydney Lea

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in…

— Amor Towles

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought:…

— David Simon

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

— Svetlana Alexievich

As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

— Jill Abramson

When I hear a story, I think about it from the point of view of the audience.

— Catherine Tresa

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

— Michael Cunningham

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

— Mitch Albom

I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.

— Zoe Sugg

“She kept her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.”

— Karen Robards

“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.”

— Oliver Markus

“My library was where I liked to relax because reading had always been my escape.”

— L.P. Dover

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

— Diana Wynne Jones

“For knowledge, you should read books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.”

— Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

— Virginia Woolf

“Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level.”

— Richard Ridley

“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.”

— Donalyn Miller

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

— Jeff Bridges