Books Quote by Terry Pratchett

“For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself.…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge. He sat down, he took pen and…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was.”

— Don DeLillo

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“He had never been good at expressing himself. What he felt was so big it was difficult to find the words, and even if…

— Rachel Joyce

“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Writing was what saved the stutterer. It saved him the trouble of speaking.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Writing had never become routine for him, but remained a constant surprise. He was always surprised at how much fun it was, once it…

— Nora Roberts

“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it…

— Laila Halaby

“In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.”

— Terry Pratchett

“He looked at a picture on the wall and saw everything that existed outside the room he was sitting in and the one he…

— Don DeLillo

“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him.…

— D.H. Lawrence