Interesting Quotes about Writers and Writing
Thoughts on Reading and Writing for Cards, Websites and Libraries
Jan 29, 2009
Numerous people, from the famous to the obscure, have spoken about the significance of writing, the role of writers, the relevance of literature to society and the pleasures to be gained by reading.
Quotes about Writers and Writing
One can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality – George Orwell
Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. – Jessamyn West
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.” – Robert Benchley
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. – Samuel Lover
In the end all books are written for your friends. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book – Samuel Johnson
Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people in the world entirely free from routine. – attributed to both Eric Linklater and Vachel Lindsay
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. - Elie Wiesel
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. – Gustave Flaubert
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. - E. L. Doctorow
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. – Gaston Bachelard
Quotes about Books and Readers
A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to look out. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I think we ought to read only the kinds of books that wound and stab us... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. – Franz Kafka
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. – Henry David Thoreau
No two persons ever read the same book. – Edmund Wilson
...as always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read it, and that is the definition of a classic. – Carl F. Hovde on Moby Dick
...that wonderful feeling of going into a library when you’re young and have much yet to read. It’s like entering Aladdin’s cave: all those books, all that delight, waiting. – Susan Cooper
A poor book sets a child back, a mediocre book leaves children where they are, but a good book moves children on to growth and pleasure, to new understanding and discoveries. – Lillian Smith
Books are the tickets to faraway places. To adventure and friends everywhere; And the best part is that you can travel the world Without even leaving your chair. – Jill Wolf
A novel is a chance to try on a different life for size. – Marion Garretty
Using Quotes about Books, Reading and Writing
Inspiring quotes about writing and books can be used for notes and gift cards for writers and librarians as well as decorating bookmarks or scrapbook pages.
They can also be used in promotional materials or company newsletters for bookstores or libraries and book or writing-related websites.
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