Writer Quotes · Page 289

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

— John Dufresne

“I remember a time when bookshops smelled of books and not coffee.”

— David Llewellyn

“Think before you write, while you write- and definitely after you have written.”

— Sudakshina Bhattacharjee

You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.

— Jill Ker Conway

President Trump named Rand his favorite writer and 'The Fountainhead' his favorite novel.

— James B. Stewart

Actually, I probably have 30 binders at home. I have a lot of binders.

— Davis Webb

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

— Danny Boyle

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

— Charles Frazier

Life is but an open Book, with many pages to fulfill. It is soely upon oneself to which the pages shall read.…

— Mike D

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to…

— Gore Vidal

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the…

— Philip Roth

“For many writers the goal is a 1,000 words a day. For me - just give me one thought, and the words…

— Garry Fitchett

It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great…

— Thomas Huxley

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every…

— Paul Auster

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to…

— John Steinbeck

If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your…

— Lorrie Moore

I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being…

— Jonah Hill

“For me, if I have writer’s block it means I know that what I am writing is not working quite right and…

— Brandon Sanderson

Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the…

— Margaret Atwood

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and…

— Jess Walter

I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them,…

— Jackie French

“The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and…

— Bart Yates

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

— Sherman Alexie

“A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.”

— K. Lamb

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

— Nick Hornby

“Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.”

— Unsure of origin

“Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

— Daniel Pennac

I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.

— Clive Cussler

Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.

— Sadakat Kadri

“Sometimes I feel like a writer, sometimes I just feel like a snitch.”

— Jerry Stahl

“Reading was a kind of freedom, the only one I could give”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

— Wallace Stegner

“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.”

— Sara Sheridan

Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

— Robert De Niro

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

— Anne Lamott

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

— Anne Fortier

Deok Sun, like me, is learning about the world every day, but not through books.

— Lee Hye-ri