Writing And Reading Quotes

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

Writing reminds you that you’re never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship

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 a book.

Love of books is the best of all.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I don’t spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That’s the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it’s often way past due time to put the comic up, and I’m already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.