Writer Quotes · Page 107

“Role playing is the definition of fiction writers”

— M Theresa Tseng

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

— Susan Ford

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

— Paul Cezanne

“Are you a reader? Well, good for you!”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

— Patrick Marber

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

— Ernest Hemingway

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.

— Erin Morgenstern

I feel like a lot of the writing you hear is me grabbing experiences from other people.

— Ruel

“Reading entails empathy, a sort of “trying on” of being another person for a while.”

— Tat Wood

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

— Rob Lowe

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

— Abigail Breslin

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

— Elaine Dundy

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

— Steven Pinker

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

— Marguerite Young

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the…

— Michael Ondaatje

What do I do when writing isn't going well? Well, I don't write - which is symptom, cure, and cause. And then…

— Lorrie Moore

I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths.

— Prue Leith

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that…

— Jodi Picoult

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced…

— Zig Ziglar

“I know the names of the books - their old covers bleached to palest greens or pinks by the endless cycle of…

— Harriet Lane

Debut novels are difficult because nobody knows you... they just don't find a huge audience, because that's how the market works.

— Celeste Ng

“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would…

— Michael Koryta

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading;…

— Thomas Carlyle

“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves…

— Storm Jameson

While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going…

— John Darnielle

The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest…

— Augustus William Hare

I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,…

— Michael Chabon

I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published… You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep…

— Markus Zusak

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people…

— Betsy Lerner

“To read, or not to read...where is the question?”

— Brenda Sloan

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

— Neil Gaiman

On a good day I write, all day.

— Nick Flynn

I know how to write fiction well.

— Akhil Sharma

I'm very much a writer at heart.

— Jamelle Bouie

“What do you read for pleasure? Kama Sutra.”

— Jonathan Dunne

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

— Charlie Kaufman

We're professionals, and we know we want to write.

— Maria Brink