Erin > Erin's Quotes

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.”
― Robert Chambers

“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

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris