Writer Quotes · Page 250

The story of your life has many chapters. One bad chapter, doesn't mean the end of the book.

— Chloe

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

— Nicholas Mosley

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

— T. S. Eliot

I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.

— Adriana Trigiani

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

— Tom Clancy

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

— Barbara Mertz

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

— John Denham

“Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.”

— H.B. Bolton

I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing…

— Robert Greene

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

— Charles Dickens

“I try to keep up with what’s being done in every field, and most children’s books are ten times more enjoyable than…

— Ray Bradbury

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write,…

— Anais Nin

There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the…

— Rumaan Alam

Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a…

— Shoojit Sircar

“I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and…

— John Steinbeck

I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually,…

— Edmund White

“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my…

— Ianthe Brautigan

I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as…

— William Faulkner

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a…

— Jeremy Collier

The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni…

— Cornel West

My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If…

— Malcolm Gladwell

You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at…

— Zadie Smith

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa,…

— Maya Angelou

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a…

— Michael Cunningham

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

— Slick Rick

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

— Tom Robbins

You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.

— Fran Lebowitz

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

— Gail Godwin

“Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel”

— Marie Corelli

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

— Sholem Asch

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

— Goldwin Smith

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.

— Amish Tripathi

I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.

— Sharon Cameron

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

— Nancy Horan

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

— Christopher Hitchens

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

— Truman Capote

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

— Ronald Sukenick

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

— Thomas Harris

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

— Roland Barthes

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

— Augusten Burroughs