Writer Quotes · Page 283

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

— Richard Bach

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

— Mohsin Hamid

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

— Laura Miller

“You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.”

— Lauren Oliver

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

— Kenneth Patchen

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

— Jim Rohn

“I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.”

— Tom Conrad

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working.…

— Robert Osborne

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage…

— Tift Merritt

I resolved to start journaling every day, and so far I've been journaling every day, and it's been great.

— Charlie Worsham

We've seen from shows like 'Game of Thrones' that the book can become a seed, which you plant in the ground of…

— O. T. Fagbenle

I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in…

— Cassandra Clare

Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen…

— Naomi Klein

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener.…

— Jean Craighead George

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story…

— Russell Smith

“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death…

— Franz Kafka

“The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles…

— Alberto Manguel

You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to…

— Clive Davis

If I had followed my own rules - if I had eaten my own dog food - I would have created a…

— Jeff Jarvis

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never…

— Roland Barthes

The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So…

— Arthur Plotnik

“Like the burning of the ancient library at Alexandria or the supremely ignorant incineration of stacks of invaluable Mayan codices, the loss…

— Jonathon Miller Weisberger

When my first book came out, it was very disorienting. My health went south. I didn't know how to relate to people.…

— Mary Gaitskill

“Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.”

— Arlaina Tibensky

Everybody can't be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.

— Tyrann Mathieu

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

— Zelda Popkin

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

— Stephanie Zimbalist

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

— Gianni Versace

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

— Nat Hentoff

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

— Sharon Olds

“All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.”

— Michel de Montaigne

I like when you are telling a story and fall into an impression.

— Bill Hader

“Write to me Emmi. Writing is like kissing, but without lips. Writing is kissing with the mind.”

— Daniel Glattauer

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

— Haruki Murakami

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page or closing the book.

— Anonymous

I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

— Philip Guedalla