Writer Quotes · Page 507

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

— George R.R. Martin

Even in my most solipsistic moments, I don't regard my literary debut as a matter of global interest.

— Rebecca Front

“Wishing you the best adventures in reading and in life!”

— Sass Cadeaux

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

— Rebecca Ferguson

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

— Anonymous

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

— Nate Berkus

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling…

— Susan Howatch

“After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day. Allow yourself to…

— Uma Nnenna

“What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff.…

— Josh Lieb

I'm the corner street storytelling guy. I'm the guy in the garage that the neighbors come over to talk to and I…

— Jim Breuer

“Since when does reading suck? Who says that? If I ran the world, people who didn’t read would be the first to…

— Skyla Madi

Life is like a novel and every day is a new page. so if a page is sad next will b happy..…

— Thought Of The Day

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success,…

— Claire Messud

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go…

— V. S. Naipaul

“I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure, in time,…

— Gene Wolfe

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down…

— Francine Prose

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other…

— Norman Mailer

“You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some…

— Greg Carlson

For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it,…

— Sophie Calle

As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your…

— Robert Cormier

If I had stayed purely a horror writer or thriller writer, I might have more of a presence in those particular genres,…

— Chet Williamson

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

— Anonymous

“Beat up old books still have hope and life in their pages." :) :)”

— Hanna Gritton

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

— Mark Kurlansky

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

“The best books inspire you to be better and get up and do something!”

— Storytime Corner

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

— Paul Auster

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

— Michael Morpurgo

If you yourself don't know how to carry pencil, don't wish someone to teach you to write.

— Voeun Tivea

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

— Terry Pratchett

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

— Alice Kahn

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

— Robert Breault

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

— Jennifer Egan

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I will not stop singing the Muses who set me dancing.”

— Anne Carson

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

— C. S. Forester