Writer Quotes · Page 187

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

— Anonymous

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Any day in which I get writing done is ideal to me.

— Paul G. Tremblay

“Writing is the handmaiden of leadership.”

— William Zinsser

The first sentence of a book is a promise.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The greatest work of fiction by any man”

— Centaur Editions

The world was hers for the reading.

— Betty Smith

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

— Katherine Boo

It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

— Ernest Cline

The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.

— Jann Arden

Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'

— Lydia Lunch

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

— David Gilmour

“Reading without eating food is like Person standing in a war without weapons.”

— Anonymous

“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me…

— robert m drake

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

— Anne Fletcher

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

— Dean Koontz

“Whenever I send a book by parcel post and the clerk at the post office asks me, "Is there anything dangerous in…

— Los Angeles Dave Zobel California

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different…

— Gillian Cross

Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It…

— Jim Carrey

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

— Jane Espenson

If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want…

— Dorianne Laux

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write…

— Ray Charles

You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of…

— Lucy Corin

I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or…

— John Updike

“There’s a vast underground network for goodness at work in this world—a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of…

— George Saunders

Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not…

— Ann Patchett

Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be…

— Sherman Alexie

Good writing is rewriting.

— Truman Capote

“Writing opens the door to imagination.”

— Joe Evener

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

— E. B. White

“Every reader his [or her] book.”

— S. R. Ranganathan

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

— Gunter Grass

“What’s hard is sitting down to write.”

— Anonymous

“Books require titles; reading them doesn't”

— Alan Moore