Writer Quotes · Page 562

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.

— Hasan Minhaj

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

— David Crosby

I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.

— Anonymous

The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

— A. Edward Newton

In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

— Elizabeth Bowen

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

— Flannery O'Connor

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

— Walter Mosley

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

— David Liss

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And…

— T.C. Boyle

“Few industries have had their death foretold more frequently than the book publishing industry, and yet somehow, miraculously, it seems to have…

— John B. Thompson

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also…

— Jo Nesbo

I always have a notebook - I have kept diaries since I was eight years old. My preferred choice is a Moleskine…

— Carol Drinkwater

“She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.”

— Cornell Woolrich

I feel most myself when I'm reading, but by that I don't mean that I'm most comfortable when I'm reading. I feel…

— Dan Chiasson

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for…

— William Stafford

I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page…

— Renee Watson

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your…

— Arnold Bennett

(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It…

— Augusten Burroughs

Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

We write to understand our deepest secrets to ourselves, to understand. We write in an outpouring of love. We write in secret,…

— Sophy Burnham

“Oh literature is a wonderful thing, Varenka, a very wonderful thing: I discovered that from being with those people the day before…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin

— Faith Sullivan

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

— Billy Joel

If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job.

— John Berry

I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.

— Mary Pilon

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

— Maxine Kumin

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

— Edward Gibbon

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

— Young-Ha Kim

Close the back cover of the book, move on and find something else to do.

— Ramandeep Singh

The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.

— Spike Milligan

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

— Sam Amidon

“Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?”

— Alyssa Hubbard

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

— Haruki Murakami

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

— Nick Blaemire

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

— Christopher Morley

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

— Henry Rollins

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

— Mitch Albom