Writer Quotes · Page 641

I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one.

— Henrietta Rose-Innes

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book.

— Trevor Phillips

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

— Diane Ackerman

“Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.”

— Brian Herbert

“No person can ever be called friendless for he has the company of books.”

— I.R. Shankar

“I can not imagine a world without books. My world will not be complete with the love for books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

There is nothing to writing, you just sit at a type writer and bleed.

— Ernest Hemingway

I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

— Kevin Young

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how…

— Jose Saramago

“Material Witness - book 1 (**Named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2012) Nothing But Trouble (Contemporary Western Romance)”

— Lisa Mondello

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

— Elif Safak

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are…

— Anonymous

Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

— Ted Dekker

“Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.”

— Hilary Mantel

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

— Ishmael Reed

“My lips are fierce with passion. My heart spins fiery beats. A rhythm lives within my fingers and dances in my feet.”

— Jamie Weise

I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an…

— Terry Rossio

I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more…

— Rick Moody

I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first…

— Duff McKagan

Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer…

— Neil Gaiman

“I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath…

— Erich Maria Remarque

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the…

— James Branch Cabell

“But I do go in for books. I love to own books. Though I read few books twice, I have filled every…

— Joe Bennett

“If you found this book in the New Age section of your local bookstore, it was grossly misshelved, and you should put…

— Mary Roach

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

— Ernest Hemingway

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

— Roddy Doyle

I like writing because I can do it anywhere, and I don't need money to do it.

— Viv Albertine

I'm really lucky that I grew up in a house full of books.

— Tom Fletcher

“To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.”

— Lee Bennett Hopkins

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

— George Orwell

“(about divorce): Sometimes you have to scrap your first draft and start over.”

— Danielle Ganek

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

— Norman Mailer

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

— David Duchovny

The first thing reading teaches, is how to be alone.

— Jonathan Fianzen

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

— Rachel Cohn

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.

— James A. Michener

“I could always tell when I was ready to write again, for I became irritable.”

— Liza Dalby

“I just take a book everywhere with me. It's a habit.”

— Rory Gilmore

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

— Anne Rice

The novel [The Kite Runner] came about as an expansion of that original, unpublished short story.

— Khaled Hosseini