Writer Quotes

“I like Books...”

— Suzanne Collins

“Books are your friends”

— Abul Huda

I'm constantly writing.

— Gza

“READ READ AND READ”

— Caroline redden

I write from my stomach.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I'm not well read.

— Cate Blanchett

“I write what I like”

— Steve Biko

“I want be a writer”

— Anne Frank

Make your books your companions.

— The Talmud

“Writing is a temporal form of creating forever.”

— Jonathan Heatt

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Three words for a writer: Make me care.”

— Buffy Andrews

“It is always a mistake to argue with a librarian.”

— Jeanette Winterson

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

— Tea Obreht

“When it comes to books, I am a sensuous woman.”

— Jincy Willett

“He who owns Books and loves them is wise.”

— Roger Duvoisin

I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.

— Markus Zusak

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

— Maureen Corrigan

“I don’t know why I have to write down my fucking thoughts. What if I don’t have any thoughts?”

— Wade Kelly

“Everyone knows that books are better than life! That's why they're books!”

— Shainee Gabel

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.

— Harlan Coben

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

— Hillary Clinton

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

— Sophie Hannah

“What are you, beyond the collection of the things you've done, said and thought? Happily, much comfort is to be found in…

— Belle Dejour

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That…

— Anne-Marie Duff

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.

— Charisma Carpenter

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there…

— Terry Pratchett

“Lisa folds her hands. “The world tests us for reasons, Miss Bishop,” she says sweetly. “Don’t you want to be Crew?” I…

— Victoria Schwab

“It’s almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale…

— Marilyn Johnson

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just…

— Sofia Coppola

Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave…

— Elizabeth Bowen

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote…

— Annie Besant

“I’ve seen middle grade books criticized by adult readers for leaving things for the reader to figure out, for not having perfect…

— Anne Ursu

“Here's the thing: the act of reading changes your life, sometimes in large ways, sometimes in small ways, but every book you…

— Anonymous

It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure…

— William C. Brown

Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and…

— John W. Henry

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The…

— Walter Mosley

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per…

— Brian Tracy

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the…

— Barbara Kingsolver