Writer Quotes · Page 636

“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.”

— Caron Kamps Widden

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

— Martellus Bennett

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

— Caroline B. Cooney

There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.

— Edward Hoagland

A writer has to keep one foot in the street and one pocket empty and be hungry for it.

— Eddie Rabbitt

“People talk about books being an escape...this one feels more like a lifeline.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“She believed that books served as a mirror of the person who accumulated them.”

— Donna Leon

“Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers.”

— Georg Lukacs

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things…

— Kameron Hurley

The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.

— Nancy Byrd Turner

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

— John Derbyshire

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing.…

— Tanith Lee

Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work…

— Jay Asher

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure…

— Max Muller

“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are…

— Richard Denney

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually…

— Neil Gaiman

The reason I choose the stories I choose - and it's why it takes me so long to find ideas - is…

— Erik Larson

An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated…

— Anonymous

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to…

— John Steinbeck

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis…

— Robert Crais

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my…

— Ian Fleming

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know…

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Literature is the most legal drug of all. And the most peaceful way of escaping reality.

— Anonymous

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

— Tori Amos

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

— Umberto Eco

“Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less alone.”

— Margarita Engle

I just write when the bell rings. I don't have time to wait for inspiration.

— Henry Mancini

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

— Anonymous

“reading is not something you have to do it should be some thing you want to do”

— Taylor Brooks

“And go we all must, with a healthy lust of books we trust.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“The world is a book and those who stay at home read only a page.”

— Sean Covey

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”

— Molly Evangeline

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

— Henry David Thoreau

“when we are in the world of reading it helps us to think in the way we wish…”

— Shebapmannil

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

— Charles King

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

— Anonymous

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

— Truman Capote