Writer Quotes · Page 194

I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday.

— Sjon

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

— Alberto Manguel

“A novel is an impression, not an argument.”

— Thomas Hardy

“When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing!”

— C.S. Dixon

I read almost everything that comes my way.

— Ravi Subramanian

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

— Roald Dahl

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

— Teresa Medeiros

To write about a place, you have to live there.

— Jonathan Ames

Don't close the book of life because of stains of the past, just turn the page and start a new life.

— Anonymous

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

— Jeanette Winterson

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

— Charles Bukowski

“Reading is dreaming another person’s dream … or nightmare!”

— Johan Thompson

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

— Paul Theroux

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

— Donalyn Miller

“Writers create impressions that inspire, stir emotions, evoke questions and sprinkle seeds of awe.”

— C. Toni Graham

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

— Jules Renard

“Some of them are working hard indeed." "What are they doing?" "My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be…

— Robin Sloan

“You should approach each book -- you should approach life -- with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner…

— Sherman Alexie

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write…

— Gore Vidal

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into…

— Helen Fielding

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Writers have no one to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have all these friends who just love therapy, and I always say the reason that I'm absolutely not in therapy is…

— Shonda Rhimes

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a…

— Rita Dove

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about…

— Kevin Spacey

“MAN No doubt about that—I can’t even call ’em “girls” without getting hit by a lawsuit, so … (Grins.) You’re a librarian?…

— Neil LaBute

“I actually like to sort books. I divide them into categories, line them up in order, sometimes flipping through one that catches…

— Dojyomaru

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said…

— Brenda Ueland

I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll…

— Stan Lee

A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself…

— Cyril Connolly

“Her salvation was the novels she read. On nights she thought it might br better not to be alive w/o Levi in…

— Alice Hoffman

“One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out…

— Will Schwalbe

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement…

— Haruki Murakami

“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”

— Ivan Doig

“If you consider yourself a writer just write.”

— Sara Gran

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do

— Paula Danziger

“Nobody ever reads the same book twice.”

— Robertson Davies

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

— Haruki Murakami

You want what you write to be essential.

— Lisa Stansfield

Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

— Abi Morgan

It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

— Tove Jansson