Books Quote by Emma Healey Download Open image “Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No.” — Emma Healey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Carry Never People Sometimes Writing
If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it and they… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?” — Matt Drabble Copy Share Image
“It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong. And it's… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I was a 20-something woman living in London and didn't want to write about a 20-something woman living in London! It's an area well… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
While I was writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing' and struggling with the intricacies of the plot, I told myself the next book would be really… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I feel like Mills and Boon saved my life. It was a way of not living. I read a lot of other books as… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I've been surprised that 'Elizabeth is Missing' has been so well received as a crime book. I love mystery stories, and that is what… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing about the… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“My reflection always gives me a shock. I never really believed I would age, and certainly not like this.” — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it might like… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
