Books Quote by Jodi Picoult

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write…

— Jodi Picoult

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write…

— Jodi Picoult

“Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and writers are…

— David James Duncan

“Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it. -Matthew D.…

— Matthew D. Forgenti

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

— Anatole Broyard

“Yes, writing is a weapon, Delphine, a bloody weapon of mass destruction. Writing is even more powerful than anything you can imagine. Writing is…

— Delphine de Vigan

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

— Denzel Washington

“Is there anyone who has ever written so much as a love letter in which he felt that he had said exactly what he…

— George Orwell

“Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship…

— Nema Al-Araby

“Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are…

— Eric T. Benoit

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much…

— Ernest Hemingway

But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for whom it…

— Betsy Lerner