Writer Quotes · Page 613

Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'

— Lydia Lunch

The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.

— Jann Arden

It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

— Ernest Cline

“Reading without eating food is like Person standing in a war without weapons.”

— Anonymous

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

— David Gilmour

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

“Be Patient. For what was written for you was written by the greatest of writers.”

— Islamic

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

— Michael Franks

I write 100% of my material by myself. That's really important to me because I don't want what I'm trying to say…

— Jade Bird

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's…

— Chad Harbach

“If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat…

— Jarod Kintz

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy,…

— Anonymous

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services,…

— Tom Peters

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was:…

— Katherine Paterson

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm…

— James Joyce

When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their…

— Richard Bach

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for…

— Evelyn Waugh

I thought a book on miracles might be a great idea, but just because it's a great idea doesn't mean I'm supposed…

— Eric Metaxas

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas…

— Jonathan Nolan

Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and…

— Steve Leveen

I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic…

— Louis Menand

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

— Katherine Boo

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

— Lucille Kallen

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

— Anonymous

“She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.”

— robert m drake

“Where are my two precious human books so I may turn their pages, aye?”

— Ray Bradbury

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

— Emily Gould

I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.

— Megan Fox

“Books are used to disprove thoughts, but to nourish them.”

— Reader With a Cause

“As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Short stories force us to keep our distance from the characters; novels bring us closer to them.”

— David Mikics

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

— Elizabeth Kostova

Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.

— Peter Corris

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

— A. N. Wilson

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

— Louis L'Amour