Writer Quotes · Page 509

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

— Eric Idle

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what…

— Junot Diaz

It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.

— David Means

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

— Joan Bauer

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Breadwinning and the art of writing must be kept absolutely apart.”

— Anonymous

“It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens…

— C.S. Lewis

Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by…

— Mini Grey

Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything…

— Jennifer Tilly

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

— James A. Michener

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature…

— Dorothea Brande

Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not…

— Oprah Winfrey

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to…

— Rebecca Mead

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

— Daphne Gottlieb

We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era…

— Sandra Cisneros

If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“She claimed that she was in the service of the workers, and yet, from her room in a house full of books…

— Elena Ferrante

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in…

— Maria Kodama

This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly…

— Suzette Haden Elgin

“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had…

— William Hazlitt

What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those…

— Will Self

If you're wondering how you'll find time, it means you don't really want to read. Because nobody's ever got time. Children certainly…

— Daniel Pennac

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

— Paris Hilton

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

— Henry L. Stimson

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

— Anna Sui

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

— Bob Dylan

“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.”

— Stefanos Livos

You know there's some great folks, great story telling at 'Dateline,' and I'm glad to be a part of it.

— Lester Holt

“Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.”

— Osamu Dazai

“I could write paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.”

— Ally Condie

“No one ever goes to libraries. And they know ALL the good stuff. (Layla Miller)”

— Craig Kyle and Chris Yost

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them”

— Malebo Sephodi

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

— Tom Perrotta

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

“You used to be entertaining before you started to write.”

— f scoot fitzgerald