Writer Quotes · Page 201

“Sit your ass down and write.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

— Anthony Powell

I see no point in reading.

— Louis XIV

I can write pretty much anywhere.

— David Mitchell

“The world belongs to those who read.”

— Rick Holland

I'm pretty slow at writing papers.

— Alan Guth

All of my novels are democracies.

— Amos Oz

Beware the man of one book.

— St Thomas Aquinas

I have a crazy background in music, both as a performer and writer.

— Jesse Itzler

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

“Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

— Christopher Hitchens

Tour isn't good for writing, but it's good for inspiration.

— Mitski

“Literature is not an instruction manual. For obvious reasons, this is rarely noted in fiction.”

— Charles Baxter

Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.

— Sheila Heti

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

— Franz Kafka

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but…

— Stephen Greenblatt

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted…

— Scarface

“Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt…

— Jasmina Tešanović

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember.…

— Louis L'Amour

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

— Fannie Hurst

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

— Paula Cole

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt introduced reader response theory or the transactional view of reading. She asserted that what the reader brings to…

— Carl M. Tomlinson

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the…

— Scarlett Thomas

Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the…

— Richard North Patterson

Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and…

— Andre Dubus III

“Even wondered about the difference? Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure. Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts…

— Raul Ramos y Sanchez

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind…

— Marcel Proust

I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But…

— C. S. Lewis

I think 'The Musketeers' is probably the Dumas novel people are most familiar with, or if not that, it's 'The Count Of…

— Tom Burke

“Reading is an activity of civilized beings.”

— Toba Beta

“Without struggle, success has no value.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

I write from my point of view.

— Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

Writing only leads to more writing.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

You need help, and that's what books are for.

— Kami Garcia

“Writing has the power of permanence.”

— Bryant McGill

“A day without writing is a day without writing.”

— Don Royster

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

— Daniel Pinkwater