Books Quote by Sherman Alexie

“If I like a book, I devour it in one sitting, and then I forget a lot. It's fine with me, because I read…

— Francesca Zappia

“Perhaps a novelist has a greater ability to forget than other men--he has to forget or become sterile. What he forgets is the compost…

— Graham Greene

“The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.”

— A.E. Poynor

“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I don’t know…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“Writing is the art of remembering and forgetting. You must forget what you’ve already written, because if you’re dwelling on your old material you…

— Jarod Kintz

“I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.”

— Ann Patchett

“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”

— Paul Auster

“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a…

— Baby Halder

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

— Anonymous

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people…

— T.S. Eliot

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.”

— Solomon Woytowich