Writer Quotes · Page 246

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write.

— Michel Faber

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

— Rita Mae Brown

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

— Anonymous

“My job is not to regulate your response to the truth - my job is to tell it.”

— Yaa Gyasi

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

— George Sand

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

— Robert James Waller

“Write the way you want to, not the way you think you should.”

— Nicola J. McDonagh

When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I…

— Laura Bush

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

— Terry Brooks

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

— Susan Sontag

“Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now.…

— Jasper Fforde

[Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may…

— Marietta Holley

I admire Charles Dickens, mostly for the texture of his writing and the colourful characters he created. His work gives us, I…

— David Essex

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the…

— Ted Genoways

“you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation.”

— Lynne Truss

“Maybe you have already been writing, but never considered a book before. What you have contributed to websites, discussion groups, blogs and…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream…

— John Dos Passos

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that…

— Pearl S. Buck

“I know it’s highly unusual for people to get this excited over books. But if you’re a reader, you get me .…

— Belle Aurora

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it.…

— Sherman Alexie

Fewer publishers mean you have a limited set of aesthetics, so you know who can and can't send your work to. You…

— Eden Robinson

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a…

— Tennessee Williams

Cormoran Strike is an amazing creation and I can't wait for his next outing. Strike is so instantly compelling that it's hard…

— Mark Billingham

“Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.”

— Stuart Aken

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Once a good book opens, it won't close until the end.”

— Abby Buter

“Writing is what we do for a living; reviewing is what gangster bullies do for fun!”

— Anne Rice

“The papers of Jerry Fairbanks Studios lie uncatalogued in the basement of the UCLA research library.”

— Val Holley

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

— Meryl Streep

“Let your love for book grow, as your confidence grows.”

— Liza D. Osae-Kwapong

“When you open a book, you open the mind of the author.”

— Teni. A

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

— Sam Harris

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

— Clifford Geertz

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

— Robert J. Sawyer

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

— Sherman Alexie

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

— Nelson Algren

“Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be!”

— Anonymous