Writer Quotes · Page 159

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

— Baron Davis

I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me.

— Sarah Manguso

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

— Walt Whitman

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Don't join the book burners!

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I essentially write for myself.

— Leon Uris

“A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I think writers are very anxious.

— Helen Garner

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

— Rob Marshall

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

— Joan Bauer

Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.

— Rik Mayall

Books come in really handy when you need something to put your laptop on.

— Nikhil Saluja

All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.

— Katie Price

“Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.”

— Alane Adams

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

— Anonymous

I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.

— Jenny Zhang

I remember that feeling when I was a young reader: finding books that were set in Sydney with Australian characters was incredibly…

— Justine Larbalestier

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to…

— Emma Donoghue

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

— T. E. Lawrence

“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom…

— Sara Sheridan

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't…

— Therese Fowler

“The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed…

— Steven Pinker

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it,…

— Marketa Irglova

I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids…

— Beverly Cleary

Now I belong to this fantastic group called The London Writers Salon, which runs Monday to Friday with sessions in London, New…

— Lesley Sharp

This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will…

— Carson McCullers

“One of the most terrifying aspects of publishing stories and books is the realization that they are going to be read, and…

— Shirley Jackson

“What would we do without our elders? Grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles? They're the libraries and archives of our lives and society. Librarians…

— Kyle Cassidy

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that…

— Poppy Z. Brite

People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a…

— Alix Kates Shulman

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that…

— Peter Mullan

I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

— Dorothy West

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing,

— Octavia Butler

I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

— Joni Mitchell

“My style of writing is very different from yours.”

— Jane Austen

“I cannot conceive not writing.”

— Terry Pratchett

You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

— Anonymous

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

— Jane Yolen

“Never underestimate the ability of a librarian”

— David N. Ofili