Writer Quotes · Page 608

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

— Francoise Sagan

When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.

— Cyril Connolly

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“But if even reading could get me in trouble if I wasn't careful.”

— Donna Everhart

“Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.”

— Joyce Rachelle

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

— Frank Norris

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

— Eric Ripert

“Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.”

— Stephen King

“And it's time you learnd there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your witing takes…

— Jennifer Echols

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all…

— Ellie Goulding

I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around…

— Stephen Stills

“He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved…

— Laini Taylor

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

— William Godwin

“Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the…

— Andromeda Edison

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a…

— Neil Gaiman

“In addition, discussing these things and making decisions at the outset of the collaboration can help to define non-writing roles. For example,…

— J. Thorn

“Oh, wow." "What do you think?" "I tried to imagine, but--I mean...it's so much more--" "Think it's large enough to keep you…

— Elizabeth Hunter

“Good writing tends to present evidence rather than judgments. When the evidence is well presented, the reader’s judgments will agree with those…

— John Ciardi

“For us, books have turned into fast food, to be consumed in the gaps between one bout of relentless living and the…

— Djuna Barnes

“Practically all human literature deals with the present and the past; when literature tries to describe the future, it at once ceases…

— Francis Mccullagh

A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness…

— St. Lucia

“It’s the books I love best that are the hardest to write about. I don’t want to take one angle on them,…

— Jo Walton

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child,…

— Ma Jian

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

— Ariel Levy

People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.

— Nargis Fakhri

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

— Simon Callow

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

“All writing affects change, whether personal, professional, spiritual, or practical.”

— Miles Tager

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

— Lev Grossman

“There are several GREAT places to buy books while visiting in Cherry Hill Pennsylvania”

— Ida Mingle

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

— Chuck Jones

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

— Julian Barnes

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

— Nathan Englander

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.

— Ethel Wilson

“The pen provides a pathway for the musings of the heart.”

— Erin Forbes

I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.

— Jason Jones

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

— Hal Sparks

One of my main goals in life is to finally learn to read.

— Nikhil Saluja

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

— Sam Shepard