Book Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own…

— Haruki Murakami

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

writers don't like to write letters. Too much like work.

— Mari Sandoz

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

— Flannery O'Connor

I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it…

— Jo-Ann Mapson

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for a living.…

— Groucho Marx

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

— Susan Sontag