Writer Quotes · Page 248

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

— Helene Hanff

I don’t have too many books, I have too little shelving.

— Lauren DeStefano

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

— James Gandolfini

“I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.”

— Laini Giles

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

— Patti Smith

“My grandfather always says that's what books are for. To travel without moving an inch.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I know I am eventually going to want to write or produce.

— Erika Christensen

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

— Lucinda Williams

I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at…

— Waka Flocka Flame

“The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality...and the unimaginable”

— Jason W. Blair

I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

— Patrick deWitt

Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph…

— W. P. Kinsella

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that…

— Karen Russell

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

— Anna Quindlen

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is…

— Ira Glass

“Trying to have your first book read when you’re a perfect stranger feels like waving at people, in a dark room, when…

— Charles Bonnaire

“We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into…

— Alberto Manguel

When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write…

— Jack Canfield

“I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening…

— Michael Cunningham

The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked.…

— Douglas Adams

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the…

— Erin Morgenstern

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake…

— Sydney Smith

“O: The Homelander series is one of the best group of books for middle aged teens looking for an action/adventure book. The…

— Jack Shunkwiler

Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in…

— Debra Monroe

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

— Thomas Steinbeck

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

— Miguel de Icaza

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

— Jim James

“Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination...”

— Himmilicious

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

— Anne Enright

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

— Rick Atkinson

Wherever the good stories are, I'm trying to place myself there.

— Letitia Wright

Writing something down that I'm struggling with makes it feel less scary or more manageable.

— Noah Kahan

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

— Kurt Loder

Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.

— Paul Theroux

“And no reason to talk about the books I read but I still do...”

— Morrissey

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

— Mary Augusta Ward

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

— Agatha Christie

“optimistic people didn’t write Pulitzer Prize-winning material—grumpy, pessimistic cynics did.”

— Nicole Williams

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

— Vicki Myron

“A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.”

— George r r martin