Writer Quotes · Page 1,003

“There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If you want to master the art of the sentence, you must first accept a somewhat unpleasant truth--something a lot of writers…

— June Casagrande

“I started keeping journals when I was fourteen and at last count had nearly a thousand. They come in all shapes and…

— Oliver Sacks

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This…

— David Morrell

“The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether…

— John Cheever

If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I…

— Kim Harrison

“I’ve read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someone they love, and over time, I…

— Jessica Park

“From Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story, re: the travel book boom of the 1970s Surprisingly, none of the new developments in…

— Tony Wheeler

The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that…

— Richard Rodriguez

Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is…

— William Shakespeare

“I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks.…

— Charles Bukowski

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing…

— Edna Ferber

“Choosing which book isn't difficult. The choice is typically the last one I brought home. I acquire books constantly and place them…

— Rabih Alameddine

Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite…

— Tess Gerritsen

“For writers, writing is a great activity to engage your mind, body, and life. As, you know: taking on hobbies and activities…

— Prince Akwarandu

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised…

— Adora Svitak

“Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books...but also give him quiet time to ponder to eternal mystery of birds in…

— Abe Lincoln

I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working…

— Paul Simon

When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals -…

— Dani Shapiro

My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and…

— E.B. White

“thirty-seven feet, almost filling the floor space of two workrooms. At last, the senior specialist could confirm that this was undoubtedly the…

— Kevin Kwan

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not…

— John Hersey

I think if you can show a kid that reading can actually be fun, it can make you laugh, inspire imagination -…

— Dav Pilkey

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive…

— Cynthia Ozick

The space where writing happens is a unique space that's hard to define, and when you're kicked out of it because you're…

— Hisham Matar

“While we need to stay informed about what they read and remain connected to our students, we don't need to participate in…

— Donalyn Miller

“If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show…

— J.K. Rowling

[My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message…

— Gloria Estefan

I think that the biggest, quickest and hardest thing to learn for a writer is that what we think of as the…

— Neil Gaiman

“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of…

— C.S. Lewis

I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or…

— David Shields

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing…

— Jodi Picoult

“Pessoa invented The Book of Disquiet, which never existed, strictly speaking, and can never exist. What we have here isn’t a book…

— Fernando Pessoa

You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like,…

— Anonymous

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that,…

— Benjamin Franklin

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I…

— Earl Sweatshirt

I remember the few times that happened to me in writing, where you basically start writing and you look at the clock…

— Darren Aronofsky

“An old book was a time capsule. When you opened the front cover, you opened a door to another world—a world accessible…

— Stephen Parrish

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained,…

— Mohsin Hamid