Writer Quotes · Page 284

“Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure.”

— Ruskin Bond

A writer will not keep quiet. He will express his opinion through writings.

— Gulzar

If we want good stories, writers should be given their due.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

— Emma Donoghue

“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.”

— Kevin Kelly

It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.

— Ally Condie

“Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!”

— K. Lamb

“I’m not saying you can’t do writing, just do some writing that you can build a career on. Creative writing isn’t going…

— Francesca Zappia

What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with…

— China Mieville

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps,…

— Leo Rosten

“fI you ees mistakes ni my writing, do not copy ro criticize. Simply correct ti and share eht knowledge. We already have…

— Robin Sacredfire

When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before…

— Leigh Bardugo

If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more…

— Clive James

Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

— Anonymous

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my…

— Paul A. Baran

“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" "Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead…

— Dorothy Sayers

“Is writing the gift of curling up, of curling up with reality? One would so love to curl up, of course, but…

— Elfriede Jelinek

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't…

— Rachel Cusk

What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates-a goose for a goose father, a sympathetic wife made bold by her husband's infidelity-…

— Janice Y. K. Lee

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time…

— Susan Sontag

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in…

— Jessica Hagedorn

And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again,…

— Jennifer Weiner

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan

I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.

— Anonymous

“She jumped off my bed and shoved my stack of books over; thousands of words crashed onto the floor.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

— Richard Ford

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

— Robert Musil

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

— Guy Kawasaki

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

— Cecily von Ziegesar

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

— Arnold Bennett

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

— Ava Gardner

“You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.”

— Aldous Huxley

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.

— Wally Lamb

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

— Lisa Scottoline

I sit down and I write and I make sure that it follows the code of Songwriting Craft 101.

— Van Hunt

“Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.”

— Euginia Herlihy

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

— Joseph O'Neill

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

— Naomi Alderman