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— John F. Kennedy
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
— Donald Ray Pollock
Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.
— Simone Elkeles
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
— Sylvia Plath
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.
— Chloe Thurlow
I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life
— Anamika Mishra
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
— Lawrence Clark Powell
I told him I wanted to major in creative writing and sit around in yoga pants and do nothing but write books eat ice cream every day.
— Colleen Hoover
Write it down and it will come alive.
— Efrat Israeli
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
— Carla H. Krueger
Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
— Lisa Scottoline
The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.
— Christina Westover
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
— Jasper Fforde
The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.
— Shannon L. Alder
I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
— Edward Abbey
Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.
— Michelle C. Hillstrom
Writing is a psychological process. It is the process of taking what is in your mind and sharing it with others.
— Gudjon Bergmann
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
— Ed Emberley
So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!
— Tracy Chevalier
After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting more books out there
— Crissi Langwell
I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'
— Sara Shepard
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
— Rex Stout
Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.
— Kira Hawke
Ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse.
— Shandy L. Kurth
I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.
— Jonathan Lethem
Most books I write because I realize there's a book sized hole in the universe and I want to fill it.
— Neil Gaiman
Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.
— Jessica E. Larsen
I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.
— Les Parrott
Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:
— Geraldine Solon
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
— H.L. Mencken
What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.
— Michael Dirda
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.
— Bill Hicks
To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
— Elmore Leonard
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
— Stephen King
When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.
— P.S. Bartlett
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
— Paul Auster
If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Books measure time in both moments and years.We all grow old but the stories never will. — R.M. Engelhardt
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?
— Guy Kawasaki
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
— Robert Adamson
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
BIG books are better. There, I said it and it's true.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
— Patricia Cornwell
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.
— Daniel Sean Kaye
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
— Samantha Shannon
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
— Anne Lamott
These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.
— Rush Limbaugh
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
— Sterling W. Sill
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
— Charles M. Schulz
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.
— Donald J. Bingle
If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
— Brett Armstrong
The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.
— Stewart Stafford
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
— Garry Kasparov
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
— Philip Pullman
Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
— Carla H. Krueger
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
— Baron De Montesquieu
I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.
— Stanley Williams
An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
— Marianne Williamson
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.
— Justin Cronin
True learning happens when books and friends, writing and understanding intermingle in a rich soup of participation.
— R. David Lankes
I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
— Jeanette Winterson
Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.
— Alex Pareene
Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Love is a book and a light to read it by.
— Peter Hubbard
