Writer Quotes · Page 541

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

— Gene Luen Yang

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

“Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.”

— Dōgen

“The thing about the literature of any country is that it is a sort of climate that one breathes,”

— Jane Fletcher Geniesse

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

— Dan Chaon

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

— Grenville Kleiser

I love writing, and I am one of the people who can do it and make a living.

— Anna Todd

“If you give a writer a line, they'll take a paragraph…”

— Suzanne McKenna Link

“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning…

— Suzanne Brockmann

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted,…

— Sherman Alexie

“It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services…

— Alain de Botton

“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those…

— Dorothy Allison

Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you…

— Jack London

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is…

— Thomas Mann

I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just…

— Jane Gardam

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.'…

— J. G. Ballard

The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Some people will love my books, some people will hate them, and others will regard them with odd curiosity. Who do I…

— Ella Dominguez

Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo…

— Tim Federle

I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Winds move but why must I... in this progression, is there really progress, to lay my words in slamming pronunciations to splatter…

— Teresa Fleischer

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,…

— Anonymous

Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers,…

— Lois Lowry

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

— Simon Mawer

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

Sometimes, you want to write how you feel, but making people have fun, that's part of it, too.

— Cole Swindell

“A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to…

— Salman Rushdie

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

— Anonymous

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

— Claire Tomalin

A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!

— Donovan

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

— Maurice Saatchi

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

— Nancy Spain

“Consequently, we sympathize. We identify. We care. In fact, most writers would like you to identify”

— Francine Prose

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

— David E. Kelley

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

— John Ruskin

It's hard for me to shut off my writer brain completely.

— Andy Daly

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

— Jaylen Brown

Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo!

— Stephen Colbert