Writer Quotes · Page 237

I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will.

— Lloyd Alexander

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

— Tim O'Reilly

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

— Tom Clancy

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

— William Golding

I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

— Joseph Heller

I want to be a bi-continental working actor and writer.

— Shenaz Treasury

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”

— Walter Tevis

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

— Dinaw Mengestu

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and…

— Ben H. Winters

We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my…

— Christian Scott

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often…

— Karen Joy Fowler

As a writer, I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my…

— Cher Lloyd

Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second…

— Russell Smith

I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best…

— Justine Larbalestier

Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject

— Claude C. Hopkins

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of…

— Louisa May Alcott

There's probably a little more creative freedom in cable versus network, a little less of a committee looking over everyone's shoulder, but…

— Timothy Hutton

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that…

— Orhan Pamuk

I think that sense of surprise, that you don't know where something is going, or what's going to happen, even as you…

— Lynne Tillman

“What I have to inform you, comes, I own, a little out of its due course; — for it should have been…

— Anonymous

My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done…

— Dennis Cooper

If I've got Writer's Block it generally means that I don't have that much to say or something's not quite connecting. I…

— Ellie Goulding

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is…

— Susan Sontag

I've always wanted to write, but coming from a small-town background - I was born and brought up in Ludhiana - you…

— Ravi Subramanian

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

— Lynn Coady

I got where I am through a series of flukes - I'm basically a musician and a writer, not a pop star.

— David Essex

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

— Claire Tomalin

“So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny!”

— Avijeet Das

One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else.

— Paul Theroux

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.

— Tom King

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“Books then. Books now. Occasionally life. —Nancy Pearl”

— Rachel Fershleiser

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.”

— Lauren Hammond

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

— Will Eisner

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

— Lawrence Kasdan

John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.

— Colm Toibin

“a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”

— Joe Hill

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

— Ruth Wilson

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

— Michel de Montaigne