Writer Quotes · Page 282

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

— Joyce Carol Oates

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

— Will Champion

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

— Maeve Binchy

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

— Angela Alioto

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

— Sigrid Nunez

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

— Jason Ellis

“Author, Family Tree The Novel quote- "Total understanding, is sharing the same feeling.”

— Andrea N. Carr

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

— Harry Mathews

I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to…

— Rosanne Cash

I always knew, deep down, that I'd love to be an author, but I don't think I really thought about trying to…

— Tom Fletcher

Ideally, I would like everyone in the world to read and love my novels. In fact, I can't believe that everyone in…

— Howard Jacobson

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more…

— Tryon Edwards

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I…

— Orhan Pamuk

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the…

— John Green

“Because that’s what a book is: a letter from a writer to a reader. It’s connection. Something that reaches across the divides…

— Chris Harrison

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented…

— Carl Sagan

I'm a storyteller - that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side…

— Raekwon

When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible,…

— Bill Vaughan

Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking…

— Karl Schroeder

“Barriers remain in place, disabling us, and denying our full participation in the everyday. The current government wallows in an ideology that…

— Penny Pepper

Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let…

— Tracy K. Smith

To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Everyone always talks about the magic of books being able to take you to other places, to let you see exotic worlds,…

— Brandon Sanderson

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

— Raymond Carver

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

— Phil Hartman

“For dramatic variation, write a sentence with subject and verb near the end.”

— Roy Peter Clark

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

— Glen Hirshberg

“Hardin, Garrett, Filters Against Folly (New York: Penguin, 1985).”

— John Michael Greer

“When you write, you should put your skin on the table.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

— Clive Barker

I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush)

— Laura Bush

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese proverb”

— shared by my mom Hazel Lock

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

— Anonymous

Everyone has a certain amount of bad writing to get out of their system.

— Elif Batuman

“Many books have been written on Thomas Merton already.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

— Peter Carey