Writer Quotes · Page 78

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

— Oprah Winfrey

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

— Ray Bradbury

I just want to tell great stories.

— Y'lan Noel

It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

— Tove Jansson

Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

— Abi Morgan

You want what you write to be essential.

— Lisa Stansfield

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

— Haruki Murakami

“Nobody ever reads the same book twice.”

— Robertson Davies

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

— Amy Bloom

Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.

— Edwin Paxton Hood

If you wanna write what is in your heart you'll be the pen and I'll be the paper

— Anonymous

“We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate.”

— Teri S. Lesesne

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

— Louis L'Amour

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

— Sophie Kinsella

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

— Claire Messud

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

— Abraham Cowley

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

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

— Marisa Silver

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

— Anonymous

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

— Salman Rushdie

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth…

— Adora Svitak

“Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories,…

— Eric Maisel

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“a lot of young viewers, but I also have a lot of older viewers. This chapter is for my older fans—those of…

— Ellen DeGeneres

“[when]asked, “What should I do if I want to become a writer?” “Well,” Doris said, with that steely twinkle in her dark…

— Doris Betts

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter…

— Paul Kane

“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how…

— C.S. Lewis

“Had she read any good books lately? At all? She could tell him that she was going to take out a subscription…

— Mary Balogh

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Good writing starts strong. Not with a cliché (“Since the…

— Anonymous

“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and…

— Jenny Colgan

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to…

— Meg Wolitzer

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do

— Paula Danziger

“If you consider yourself a writer just write.”

— Sara Gran

To write about a place, you have to live there.

— Jonathan Ames

“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”

— Ivan Doig

I read almost everything that comes my way.

— Ravi Subramanian

“When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing!”

— C.S. Dixon

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

— Roald Dahl

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

— Teresa Medeiros