Writer Quotes · Page 626

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

— Saul Williams

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

— Terry Pratchett

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

— Gary Shteyngart

“Writing always came naturally to me. It was like speaking, but easier. Actually, a lot easier.”

— Richard Paul Evans

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

— Elif Batuman

“She had left a book at home that she was impatient to get back to.”

— Willa Cather

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

— Margaret Walker

We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading.

— Michael Bierut

“It is common to assume that we are dealing with a highly intelligent book when we cease to understand it.”

— Alain de Botton

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with…

— Ernest Dimnet

“The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

— Walter Mosley

“A lot of help she was. Weren't witches supposed to have power? If you asked me Noel seemed more like a glorified…

— Tara A. Fuller

Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is…

— Robert Olen Butler

“The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize…

— Javier A. Robayo

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

— Karl Marx

The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the…

— Kathryn Stockett

A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and…

— Umberto Eco

“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside…

— Jane Smiley

I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you…

— Debra Dean

No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life…

— Storm Jameson

You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing…

— Jane Hirshfield

I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift…

— Po Bronson

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Life is a book with a thousand pages I have not yet read

— Melchor Lim

“Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.”

— Mason Cooley

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

— Paul Desmond

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

— John Scalzi

“The only difference between me and a famous writer is that I do not want to be famous.”

— Santosh Kalwar

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary”

— George Orwell

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

— Spike Lee

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

— James Boswell

There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.

— George Saunders

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

— Anonymous

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

— John Irving

“write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda”

— Ernest Hemingway

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

— Gregory David Roberts

When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.

— Naomi Alderman