Writer Quotes · Page 106

Shaw writes as if it were always midday.

— Mason Cooley

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

— Chinua Achebe

“Snatchin' up the books one read at a time!”

— Cymia

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

— Jo Walton

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

— Carolyn Parkhurst

I love writing different things.

— Anthony Horowitz

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

— Barry Unsworth

“To read or not to read…why is that even a question!!”

— Missy Allsbrooks

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

— Peter Morgan

“A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”

— Roland Barthes

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

— E. L. Doctorow

“good for my thighs; all this humping of books, good for my biceps.”

— Carole Matthews

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

— George R. R. Martin

“All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only…

— Garth Greenwell

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing…

— Gunter Grass

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

— Isaac Babel

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

— John Mortimer

“That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when…

— Susan Cain

“I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.”

— Ryan Lilly

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and…

— Isabel Allende

I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book.

— Thomas a Kempis

Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make…

— Karin Slaughter

The most important thing in writing process is the vibe cause if you on a roll, if you feel it you just…

— French Montana

The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is…

— Annie Dillard

I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only…

— Mark Twain

“We are next informed that bookworms, a term which seems to be held applicable to whoever has the smallest tincture of book-knowledge,…

— John Stuart Mill

“By weaving their thoughts and feelings into the substance of reality, the Weavers had ensured anyone writing about them would secure an…

— Louise Blackwick

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began…

— Carl Sandburg

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

— Daniel Pinkwater

Writing is the rock on which everything is built.

— Dan Rather

I have a writing addiction.

— Prince

How can you contrive to write so even?

— Jane Austen

A book is the only immortality.

— Rufus Choate

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

— David Remnick

Write as if you are dying.

— Annie Dillard

Where do you buy spellbooks?

— Tom Riddle