Book Writers Quotes
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The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.
— John Steinbeck
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
— Kate DiCamillo
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.
— Gore Vidal
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.
— Luke Taylor
I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
— Harvey Pekar
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
— Carla H. Krueger
Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.
— Nicholaa Spencer
There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.
— Jo Linsdell
Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.
— James J. Kilpatrick
My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.
— Nenia Campbell
It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.
— Christopher Isherwood
Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.
— Robyn Davidson
Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.
— Sherry Thomas
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
— Joanna Trollope
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
— Karl Popper
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
— Jennifer Weiner
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— John Gimlette
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[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?
— Lawrence M. Krauss
Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.
— Mark W. Boyer
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.
— Louis Dudek
It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you
— Robin Sacredfire
Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'
— Amelie Nothomb
Every book I've read appears in my writing.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
There's a side to all writers that loves nothing better than a book, a big chair, a window.
— Gillian Clarke
Every time someone opens a book and begins to read, a synergy between the reader and the writer occurs across time and space.
— Jeanette O'Hagan
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.
— Betsy Byars
It takes thirty-three days to write a bookonly thirty-three days. remember, writers lie for a living. — Darynda Jones
A book is like a trip to a world of imagination and creativity, and those who don't read will for ever stay in the same place.
— Dulce Rodrigues
The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.
— Michael Ian Black
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
— Louise Brown
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
— Charlaine Harris
We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died. — Joyce Rachelle
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
— Nikki Giovanni
Most writers, most books, you have no idea whether it was a dollar or a million dollars.
— Chad Harbach
Not every classic book was the best thing ever. Each book has flaws, and it's up to writers to change things.
— Tim Holtorf
I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.
— Andrew Sean Greer
Thoughts don't have time and space, one need to hold them. The one who succeeds at them becomes a writer.
— Santosh Avvannavar
...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
— Carla H. Krueger
Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far.
— Thomas Perry
A good reader has the power to move the world.
— Aman Jassal
I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library — Phillip Lopate
You will need seed money, so begin saving for your book. Don't give up. Also, write down the ideas that you have right away so you don't lose them.
— Soraya Diase Coffelt
Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.
— Sandra Cisneros
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
— Margaret Atwood
People can't read a book if they don't know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.
— Jo Linsdell
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
— David Remnick
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.
— Daniel Ionson
The best gift you can give me is a book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses.
— Fennel Hudson
I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry.
— Ellie Rose McKee
Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living.
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.
— James A. Michener
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
But the book! The siren song of the book!
— Ellen Douglas
It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.
— Tarang Sinha
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
— Paul Auster
Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book
— Johnny Rich
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.
— Mark Vonnegut
There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished.
— Claire Wingfield
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
— Andre Dubus III
Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.
— Christopher B. Krebs
You deserve good sperm. You've waited a long time.
— Buffy Andrews
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.
— Kimberly Willis Holt
All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.
— Ann Marie Frohoff
You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.
— Robin Sacredfire
People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK.
— Millicent Ashby
If you write a bad book, mobs do not show up with pitchforks and torches - and odds are you didn't write something bad.
— Dan Alatorre
A writer observes you far sharply than others and therefore you find your traits in a book.
— Arvind Parashar
Hey Revision. You can be a pain but you do make Book better.
— Buffy Andrews