Writer Quotes · Page 7

I'm a slow reader.

— Benicio Del Toro

“Read because you can!”

— Ayman Bentalha

I like telling stories.

— Hunter Parrish

“i love reading book”

— Jackie Chan

“Writing is my rebelion”

— Marie Lu

“Writing the good write!”

— J. W. Zulauf

Fiction is just lying.

— Rumaan Alam

Reading is important.

— John Garfield

Literature is the history of the soul.

— Barry Hannah

“Words both written and read are my passion.”

— Leslie Austin

“Losing yourself in a book is the best”

— Anonymous

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

— Maxwell Perkins

“I am obsessed with books. I am a book collector.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The most beautiful people are all in the library.

— Caroline Kennedy

You never get over the fear of writing.

— Maya Angelou

What better place to kill time than a library?

— Diane Setterfield

My novel, 'Kingdom of Scars', is a coming-of-age story.

— Eoin Macken

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

— Bertrand Russell

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

— Charles J. Shields

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

— Jon Scieszka

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

— Danny Huston

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

— Lord Acton

“I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. Steven Wright”

— Anonymous

Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.

— Hilary Mantel

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

— Sven Birkerts

“Write your heart out, give it your all, and proceed to make emotions crawl over the place for the power that is…

— Karlie Calderon

“There wasn’t much left at the end of the month for her favorite luxuries—great clothes and hardback books, but she didn’t mind.…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

“Being a writer is like being in a relationship. If you're not 100% committed to your writing, you will fail to be…

— Patti Roberts

“Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.”

— Carmen DeSousa

“I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third…

— Roy Peter Clark

Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.…

— Amy Bloom

It's about being in a race with time - just having a strong sense of mortality, and the idea of, How much…

— Joe Frank

“But fundamentally the reason for my not writing is the vague feeling that I have so much and such extremely important things…

— Franz Kafka

At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If…

— Blake Mycoskie

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a…

— Steve Berry

“Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which "you can't tell what is…

— Arnold Bennett

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and…

— Candace Bushnell