Writer Quotes · Page 590

“But holding a book always puts me at ease, knowing a happy ending is between my fingertips.”

— Jenni L. Walsh

“Learn to live. Live to write. Write to love. Love to learn.”

— Bonafide Rojas

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

— Kurt Vonnegut

When the library book-drop overflows and volumes spill onto the wet grass, the books are over dew.

— Green Monk

“Being a writer is like going on holidays everyday ... without the expense”

— Jennifer Larmar

“Reading is a pathway to the mind. The destination is the soul." Clu Gallagher”

— Clu Gallagher

“Books open the doors that others have closed on you.”

— Shannon Alder

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

— Andre Previn

“The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey.”

— Stephanie Lovett Stoffel

It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.

— Scott Berkun

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

— Peter Morgan

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende

“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

— Aimee Bender

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize.…

— Ian Rankin

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of…

— Emma Donoghue

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality…

— James Patterson

“Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we’ve never seen, expand our horizons…

— George R.R. Martin

“But, it didn’t matter that my mother suspected and knew that I was a writer. It was expected of me to take…

— William Saroyan

I've gone more than 40 years without having to use an alarm clock or go to an office. At this point, I…

— Nick Tosches

A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant…

— Samuel Johnson

A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with…

— E. B. White

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be…

— Robert Cormier

Teaching other people to write is not something I can do. The only kind of advice I can give them will be…

— Margaret Atwood

“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.”

— Diane Setterfield

“The great words never die... and so does the soul of its author.”

— Toba Beta

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

— Mason Cooley

“You write about what you love and you write about things you’re trying to make sense of.”

— Bruce Springsteen

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

— Chinua Achebe

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

— Zoe Cassavetes

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

— Samuel Johnson

Books are as important to a fool as a mirror to a blind..

— Kshitij Roshan

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

— Malcolm Lowry

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

— Dawn Addams

“​Escaping into books had been my only relief in life”

— Abbi Glines

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

— Mark Z. Danielewski