Writer Quotes · Page 552

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

— Edmund White

“The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.”

— jorge luis borges

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

— Michael Moore

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

— Ben Okri

I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book.

— Julie Foudy

“I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.”

— Bertrand Russell

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

— Iris Chang

Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed

— Brian Stableford

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest;…

— Plutarch

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single…

— Emma Donoghue

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but…

— Macaulay Culkin

“Like an airplane, an oven, or an elevator, Faebook is a tool that can make life's To-Dos fun and easy.”

— Carolyn Abram

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

— Stephen King

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a…

— Jerry Stahl

I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels,…

— Carol Drinkwater

In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane…

— Vissarion Belinsky

It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's…

— Paul Di Filippo

... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will…

— Neil Armstrong

Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would…

— James Dickey

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Life is like a movie. Just roll up a film. When you finish it, just be kind and rewind. Don't live it…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

In life, we like tranquility; in books, we love tension.

— Ben Dolnick

“I haven't told why I wrote the book, but I haven't told you why I sneeze, either. A book is a sneeze.”

— E.B. White

“You know what? Forget the warning. Read the book. Go insane. See if I care.”

— Jonathan L. Howard

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires

— Todd Barry

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

— Raymond E. Feist

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.”

— robert m drake

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

— Tom Helm

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

— Al Alvarez

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

— Norman Mailer

Your vacation depends upon the book that tells you where to go, and it is called your cheque book.

— Vikrant Parsai

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

— Fernando Pessoa

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

— Anne Lamott

“What can a man read in a library of cannibals? Bloody books bound by bones in tissues’ paper.”

— Stephan Attia

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

— Roman Coppola

“But then such a book as this is not meant to amuse.”

— Richard Wagner