Writer Quotes · Page 521

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

— Ernst Junger

A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him.

— Vikrant Parsai

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.”

— Virginia Woolf

The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is.

— Andre Aciman

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

— Voltaire

“A writer's mind is a place where demons kill angels in disguise.”

— Ram Vignesh

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

— Annie Dillard

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading…

— Adriana Trigiani

Any book that you're writing about your life, there are tough chapters that you've gotten through, you've survived them, and kind of…

— Shannon Bream

I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading…

— Katherine Paterson

Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the…

— Alexander Chee

I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

— Douglas Adams

I surround myself with books, kind of hoping the vast knowledge will just seep into my mind through osmosis.

— Steve Backshall

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to…

— David Leavitt

I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer.…

— Abi Morgan

There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a…

— Rebecca Stead

“Why should a family with eight rambunctious children bother owning anything that could be damaged? They sat on the arms of their…

— Marilynne Robinson

The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and then grease it." Almost…

— Dan Simmons

“Sometimes the novel is not ready to be written because you haven't met the inspiration for your main character yet. Sometimes you…

— Jamie Varon

The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange…

— W. S. Merwin

While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my…

— Margaret Atwood

“To write a novel is fundamentally an act of impudence. To comb one's hair is also an act of impudence, especially when…

— Paco Ignacio Taibo II

“How did we get here? How, like Tootle the Train, did we get so off track? Perhaps it’s time to revisit these…

— Diane Muldrow

“...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.”

— Patricia Engel

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

— Frank Zappa

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

— Marsilio Ficino

Writing has got to be some of the hardest work I know.

— Lloyd Alexander

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

— Sara Sheridan

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

— George Murray

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

— Mark Twain

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

— Francois Truffaut

“When life tries to stop you from writing, be relentless!”

— Honoree Corder

“Each time someone dies, a library burns by John Lennon "the Sky is everywhere”

— Jandy Nelson

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

— John Hodgman

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

— Suhasini Maniratnam