Writer Quotes · Page 57

“There are never enough books to be satisfied with”

— I believe Me

Where am I when I am involved in a book?

— Sven Birkerts

Good writing is lean and confident.

— Anonymous

One can transform a place by reading in it.

— Alberto Manguel

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

— Lionel Shriver

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

— Carole Nelson Douglas

The good of a book lies in its being read.

— Umberto Eco

I try to read as much as I can.

— J.I.D

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

— Robert Cormier

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

— Anais Nin

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

— James Patterson

I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.

— Anna Quindlen

“He smells the same—peppermint and cedar and a hint of old books.”

— Cath Crowley

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

— Stephen Leacock

“I loved my mom because she read the entire Harry Potter series out loud to me, and when we were finished, she…

— Julie Buxbaum

“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”

— Anna-Cosette

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

— Dwight Yoakam

I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like…

— M. F. K. Fisher

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime…

— Sophie Hannah

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some…

— Alice McDermott

Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It…

— Freddie Highmore

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even…

— Margaret Atwood

No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes…

— Hilary Mantel

Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract…

— Rebecca Miller

Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take…

— Isaiah Mustafa

I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing,…

— Julie Klassen

Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias…Avoid the elaborate,…

— William Strunk, Jr

We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear,…

— Harold Bloom

I got a damn good mind to write a book about all the feelings that I have inside about all these things…

— Ernest Borgnine

“The libraries have become my candy store.”

— Juliana Kimball

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

— Thomas de Quincey

Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.

— Junot Diaz

Books are a languid pleasure.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Some people write letters, in the library.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Books are great companion.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

— William Faulkner

“Why not make a fiction of the mind's fictions?”

— Natasha Trethewey