Writer Quotes · Page 619

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

— Peter Carey

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

— Peter Murphy

“Motivational and moral books can change your present and future. Only The Bible can change your past.”

— Alin Sav

“When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.”

— Chloe Thurlow

I love to read. I have a Kindle, and it's nice to be able to download books that people refer.

— Kellan Lutz

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.

— Jack Edmonds

“The best thing about a book is that you don't have to plug it in.”

— Joseph Voelbel

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on…

— Marisa Silver

“Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."…

— Salman Rushdie

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously,

— Anonymous

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out…

— Azar Nafisi

“To find just the right book at the moment when the soul is hungry for it is a miracle, and not a…

— Jane Steger

When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

— Anne Fadiman

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths…

— Ben Hecht

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who…

— William Faulkner

“ How Journal Writing Helps Because of your social anxiety, you may be so afraid that any opinions you have are wrong…

— Heather Moehn

“It’s hard to know, when you’re in such a jam, which is worse—not having a place to sleep or not having a…

— Henry Miller

Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's…

— Stephen King

Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are…

— Theodora Goss

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a…

— Donna Tartt

I took "Forever" [by Judy Blume] to the bathroom to read [when I was eight] and then I heard my mom coming…

— Lena Dunham

“Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific…

— Madeleine L'Engle

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

— Ken Follett

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

— Richard Scarry

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

— Robert Penn Warren

“A world without books is like a playground without children. Natasha Johnstone”

— Natasha Johnstone

“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”

— John Ruskin

For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.

— Ella Henderson

One who does not like to read is equal to one who cannot read.

— Vikrant Parsai

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

— Antonin Artaud

“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.”

— Louis L'Amour

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

— Penn Jillette

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

— William Styron

“The writings are built by imagination. Emotions fill the colours to them.”

— Sameer Khan

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien

“Remember, this person burns books. Does he really deserve to live?”

— Diane Setterfield

I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work.

— Rumaan Alam

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

— Doris Lessing