Writer Quotes · Page 180

“All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy.”

— Aporva Kala

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

— Edward Abbey

I love the structural part of the writing process.

— Kate Morton

“Real literature, great literature, moves people.”

— Nevien Shaabneh

Support your libraries... or else!

— Margaret Atwood

“One day there will be no books"… Yeah right.”

— Maria the lone wolf

I think writing is a much more personal thing.

— Patrick Stump

“The obligation of a writer is to live out loud.”

— Émile Zola

I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.

— Natalie Portman

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

— Siri Hustvedt

“There are only three things I do. I read. I write. And I fart glitter.”

— Ksenia Anske

“The best decoration in the world is a room full of books.”

— Billy Baldwin

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.

— Alan Cheuse

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

— David Rockefeller

Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an…

— Julian Barratt

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.

— Nancy K. Miller

“As for advice—write as much as you can! Time’s ticking, and if you don’t throw everything you have into your stories today,…

— Darren Shan

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

— Roxane Gay

“You’ll get so tired of Blair Water — you’ll know all the people in it — what they are and can be…

— L.M. Montgomery

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a…

— Michael Lewis

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer…

— Damien Chazelle

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

— Erica Jong

Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and…

— Esther Vilar

“Quote by Alan Cupp "This is why writers have editors. These are those gracious, honest folks who are willing to point out…

— Brie Edison

“As good as' always spells mediocrity. But when a writer's work is in competition with all those thousands of other manuscripts that…

— Phyllis A. Whitney

Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting…

— Saul Bellow

“Indeed I do belong to that dreadful class of persons known as the reclusive writer – the existential writer. For the existential…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

“The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking…

— M.J. Rose

“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present…

— Alaa Al Aswany

That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think…

— George Saunders

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

— P. D. James

Books were safer than other people anyway.

— Neil Gaiman

“A book either knocks you down or raises you up.”

— Mihail Sebastian

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

— Jose Bergamin

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

— Joan Armatrading

“I’m a librarian,” he said.”

— Laini Taylor

I read; I travel; I become

— Derek Walcott

I write what's given me to write.

— Philip Levine