Writer Quotes · Page 15

I write out of defiance.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Writing is hard.

— Spike Jonze

Books do furnish a room.

— Anthony Powell

Fiction is just lying.

— Rumaan Alam

“Writing the good write!”

— J. W. Zulauf

Reading is important.

— John Garfield

“Writing is rewriting.”

— Alan Winter

I write with all my heart

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

— Amadou Hampate Ba

I think you can't help but write in your own voice.

— Leigh Whannell

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

— Michael Morpurgo

I never run out of things to write about.

— G Flip

“Go On. Write. I dare you.”

— Madeline Dyer

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

— Colin Quinn

“What's the point of a book you don't enjoy?”

— Jessica Spotswood

Write for the right reasons - i.e. yourself.

— Kerry Wilkinson

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.

— Ravi Subramanian

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

— Mark Twain

“It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.”

— Anonymous

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Everything in a novel has to be intentional, even the things that aren't.

— Scott Spencer

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

— Martin Freeman

I think I have grown impatient with just being a writer.

— Alain de Botton

“I'm sure the only act that sells more books than a good banning is a good burning.”

— Pansy Schneider-Horst

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.

— David Quammen

I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

— Feist

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

— Anthony Trollope

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

— Vicki Baum

“You know the feeling that a great writer gives you: my spirit has been fed and refreshed; it has partaken of something…

— Katherine Mansfield

“one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself…

— Gloria Steinem

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

— Kate Atkinson

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private…

— Jeanette Winterson

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what…

— Italo Calvino

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a…

— Thomas Wolfe

“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“there.” Annie finished cleaning up in the kitchen, went to the makeshift office, and dropped into the swivel chair behind the desk.…

— Rayven T. Hill

“Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff,…

— Emma Shortt

“The other thing you can do is write a strong personal essay which lets admissions people inside your life, your heart, and…

— Eugene Mirman

I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to…

— Anonymous

One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I've expressed myself clearly. I…

— Gretchen Rubin