Books Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have…

— Enid Blyton

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

— Manuel Rivas

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker

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

— Ishmael Reed

Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters…

— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

— Virginia Woolf

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

— Richard Flanagan

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

— George W. Bush

I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about…

— Isabel Allende

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it,…

— Kiki Dimoula