Writer Quotes · Page 518

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

— Michel de Montaigne

“A NICE THOUGHT One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.”

— Markus Zusak

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

— Alice Walker

Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

— Jim Gaffigan

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

— Luther Standing Bear

I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

— Christine and the Queens

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more…

— Flannery O'Connor

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in…

— Kate Beckinsale

No Time For Goodbye is a deliciously smart thriller, full of surprises and perfect pacing. I'm jealous I didn't write it.

— Alafair Burke

I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it…

— Lev Grossman

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

— Kathy Acker

'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite…

— P. L. Travers

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost…

— Rick Riordan

We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions,…

— Anna Quindlen

What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Unpraised, I find it hard to start writing in the morning; but the dejection lasts only 30 minutes, and once I start…

— Virginia Woolf

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield,…

— Mark Gatiss

I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a…

— Michael Dirda

“Sophie was neither a virgin nor a prude, despite what people might otherwise assume about librarians. On the contrary, if people knew…

— Bella Andre

Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing…

— Jack Heffron

“The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend. ”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.”

— Jonathan Franzen

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

— Mark Twain

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

— Antonio Tabucchi

“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”

— Roald Dahl

“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.”

— Shay Youngblood

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!”

— Christie Silvers

I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.”

— Lorenzo de' Medici

I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it.

— Omar Benson Miller

Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'

— Marti Noxon

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

— Martin Luther

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

— Vikram Seth

“Giving a child a book is better than any toy you can buy, even a fidget spinner.”

— Sonia Cunningham Leverette

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

— Abraham Lincoln