Writer Quotes · Page 245

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

“You should write about your life. It's kind of funny. When it's not depressing as hell.”

— Jeni Decker

“I believe that what we want to write wants to be written”

— Julia Cameron

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

— John Lyly

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

— Robyn Davidson

“You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.”

— Julie Rodelli

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

— Pink

I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might.

— Luvvie Ajayi

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all…

— Thomas Carlyle

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can…

— Julian Barnes

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when…

— Jostein Gaarder

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. –Harold…

— Harold Kushner

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how…

— Jodi Picoult

My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I…

— Shirin Neshat

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but…

— Lisa Lucas

Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can…

— Mary Pilon

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of…

— Arthur Phillips

The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional…

— Karen DeCrow

I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think…

— Joshua Ferris

I was writing 'Outlander' for practise and didn't want anyone to know I was doing it. So I couldn't very well announce…

— Diana Gabaldon

Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an…

— Alice Sebold

It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the…

— Alix Kates Shulman

“What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real…

— Edward Abbey

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

— Salman Rushdie

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

— Joseph Brodsky

As a food writer, it's my job to know each and every cuisine on this planet as well as I can.

— Melissa Leong

“Life is hard enough. When I read, I want to go to another world that makes me feel warm and fuzzy.”

— Anonymous

“A paperback book was wrapped around Barney's massive index finger as he held his place.”

— Thomas Harris

“I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so.”

— Charles Baudelaire

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

— Tom Waits

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from

— Paul Weller

“The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.”

— John Gardner

I've been pretty lucky in that I'm not a big writer's block kind of person.

— Michael Giacchino

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

— Henry David Thoreau

People are like books, unknown until they are opened.

— Richard Paul Evans

“Transformational Fiction teaches how to assess, understand, and heal sexuality.”

— Anne Stirling Hastings Ph. D

I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.

— Philip K. Dick

Before becoming a writer, I worked in the media, for the ABC affiliate in Dallas.

— Sandra Brown

The longer I carry on, the more difficult writing seems to get.

— W. G. Sebald