Writer Quotes · Page 182

“A book worn out, is a book well used.”

— Kate Ashley

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“a writer’s brand builds slowly, person by person.”

— Sean Platt

“Mommy. Do you ever wish a book will never end?”

— Angela D'Ambrosio

“I'm no Dostoevsky - I just love to write”

— Ian Colquhoun

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

— William Maxwell

With a book he was regardless of time.

— Jane Austen

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

— V. S. Pritchett

“Books are majical. With books we can be anyone, go everywhere, and do anything.”

— Brenda Tetreault

“Books are just one blink you go there and you come back.”

— Deyth Banger

There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.

— Zakes Mda

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

— Colson Whitehead

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence.”

— John Alfred Langford

Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at…

— Rose Tremain

“In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.”

— Anthony Burgess

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing…

— Ayana Mathis

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to…

— Christopher Fry

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

— David Benioff

“When we write with power and authenticity, it opens the door to our hearts and invites others in. When we're brave, we…

— Lynda Cheldelin Fell

What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make…

— Vivian Gornick

Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.

— Mercedes Lackey

“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life…

— Bryant A. Loney

“As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted the larger world. Like Edith, Theodore filled pages…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But…

— Nick Cave

“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own.…

— Julia Cameron

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with…

— Daniel Handler

“Books are portals for the imagination, whether one is reading or writing, and unless one is keeping a private journal, writing something…

— PJ O'Brien

As long as we have books, we are not alone.

— Laura Bush

“There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU.”

— Diva Jefferson

I like how I write better than how I speak.

— Henry Rollins

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I like books. I read a lot, to be honest.

— Ada Hegerberg

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

— Daphne du Maurier

My writing is a picture of the mind moving.

— Philip Whalen

All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.

— Anne Sexton