Writer Quotes · Page 137

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

— Tobias Smollett

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Every author does not write for every reader”

— Samuel Johnson

Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

— Virginia Woolf

I'll never be a TV writer.

— Tom Segura

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

— Henry Mancini

I write in a small office at home.

— Walter Dean Myers

Well, I just love to read books. I read a lot.

— Shriya Saran

“If a book is well written,I always find it to short.”

— Jane Austen

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

— John Updike

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

— Gloria Steinem

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)

— Scott Westerfeld

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm a bibliophile and I usually read three to four books at the same time.

— Kunal Kapoor

Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all.

— Peter Handke

If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.

— David Ogilvy

I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there…

— Lisa Lutz

I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.

— Amitava Kumar

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on…

— Marilyn Hacker

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's…

— Dean Koontz

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form…

— Rachel Cusk

“The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until…

— Phyllis Rose

“I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create…

— Xiaolu Guo

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I write so others might contemplate things out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears, to…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It's interesting that reading, like listening to podcasts, is a lone pursuit, one where we keep our mouths shut and let someone…

— Sara Pascoe

So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and…

— Willa Cather

There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be…

— Chespirito

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what…

— Walter Benjamin

I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move…

— Anders Holm

“Will found it funny that people balked at paying retail price for a book, something that a writer poured his or her…

— Sean Platt

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

“Don't just read a book. Eat it!”

— Jim McDougall

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

— Jill Davis

“If you always read books, you'll always be happy.”

— Bruce Feiler

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

— Terry Pratchett

“If you write it down, you can make it happen.”

— Staness Jonekos

Write the way you talk. Naturally.

— David Ogilvy

“Any friend of Gatsby is a friend of mine.”

— Haruki Murakami