Writer Quotes · Page 115

“The Book of Us. I’m writing it. And you’re in it.”

— Jarod Kintz

Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.

— Ralph Fletcher

I always write the pieces I want to write.

— Harrison Birtwistle

“A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed”

— Munia Khan

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

— Diane Duane

I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

— Tom Robbins

“I write so my voice is remembered.”

— Eric Wynn

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

— Rex Stout

I tend to think of writing as a more collaborative project than I think some people do.

— Emily Barton

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I am writing a book entitled "Conquest." Please be ready. It is a book children should red.”

— Charles Keith Hardman

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

— John Gregory Dunne

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

— Anonymous

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

— E. O. Wilson

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

— Ruskin Bond

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they…

— John Green

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is…

— Brooks Atkinson

“Reading leads to knowledge,knowledge leads to empowerment. Empowerment leads to greatness...you want to be great don't you?

— Timothy Pina

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what…

— Karen DeCrow

“Books,' I say sleepily. 'They don't change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it's still…

— Truus Matti

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find…

— Alice James

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

— Steve Erickson

“I think the hardest thing about writing is writing." [Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony,…

— Nora Ephron

“Sad Things Why do you write sad things? he asked. When I am here, when I love you. Because someday , in…

— Lang Leav

Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the…

— Edward Hirsch

“V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part…

— Raymond Carver

“He always told them the same thing, to begin with. ‘Try to avoid falseness and strain. Write what you really know about.…

— A.S. Byatt

Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid…

— Percival Everett

“In an infinite universe, all things are possible -- within physical limits, that is -- and any book that can be written…

— Rand Miller

I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to…

— Michael Morpurgo

I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a…

— Amy Tan

“An author is a writer who didn't give up.”

— Richard Bach

“Writing is fun. Promoting? Not so much...”

— Bea Cannon

“A book is a good thing to read.”

— Doug Soderstrom

“It was like living entirely inside a book.”

— Diane Setterfield

“Crazy people love their Kindles.”

— Dermot Davis

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

— Mem Fox

It's hard to make a book episodic.

— Sam Heughan

It is easy to write when you don't know how.

— Judy Delton