Writer Quotes · Page 578

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

— Anne Perry

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

— Roland Barthes

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

— Gary Jennings

I think of myself as a storyteller, more so than an actress.

— Naomi Ackie

“pointing to the rows of black spines on the shelves.”

— Patricia Gibney

“Every balance sheet tells a story that I love to read. I am a Chartered Accountant.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

“Masturbation, like writing, is best when your mind is working faster than your hand.”

— Jarod Kintz

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I…

— James Dashner

“The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them…

— Anonymous

“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and…

— Clark Zlotchew

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens…

— Philip Roth

“ 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet…

— Fae Sutherland

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

— Maurice Sendak

“Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!”

— Cornelia Funke

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books…

— Lisa Kleypas

Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me…

— Chris Van Allsburg

The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection but in the plight…

— Philip Roth

I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I…

— Amish Tripathi

Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Excuse me? she sent. What’s this all about? She looked around suspiciously, but the library was full of Auradon students diligently working…

— Melissa de la Cruz

If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have…

— Cynthia Voigt

“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we…

— Charles Kingsley

Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can…

— Herman Melville

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

— Donald Barthelme

“No, my fantasies are more about sexy doctors than librarians." Clark Ardent - Warriors of the Cross”

— T.R. Graves

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

— Kit Williamson

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

— Cynthia Voigt

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

— Peter Greenaway

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

— Allison Pearson

When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

— Kevin Young

I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.

— Julianne Moore

If you we're a library book, I would never bring you back.

— Chloe

I wonder how people write exactly how they feel and give the reader the same feeling. Its a blessing!!

— Farah Mustafa

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

— Nikki Giovanni

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

— Dwight Yoakam

I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

— Kenneth Edmonds

His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

— Charlotte Bronte

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The man who never lends his books probably remembers how he acquired them.

— Vikrant Parsai