Writer Quotes · Page 292

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

— Winston Churchill

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

— Lauren Groff

“GREAT THINGS sometimes come from rewriting under pressure.”

— Lynn Hunt

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

— Michael Pena

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.

— William Zinsser

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

— Larry Niven

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library…

— John Grisham

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

— Matthew Specktor

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to…

— Paul Theroux

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only…

— John Green

I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course,…

— Isaac Asimov

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember…

— Anonymous

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to…

— Nick Cave

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try…

— George Saunders

I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like…

— Roger Zelazny

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows…

— Gustave Flaubert

When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first…

— John le Carre

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time…

— Neil Gaiman

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some…

— Alex Garland

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches…

— Rob Lowe

“Double Sword Tavern.” Tristan said, reading out loud. “Sounds charming and inviting.”

— B.C. Morin

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

— Jeanette Winterson

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

— Naomi Novik

“Reading a book takes you on a journey without leaving the current place you are in.”

— LaShonna Dyson

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

— Heinrich Heine

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

— Martin Cruz Smith

“Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery and —”

— Anonymous

“Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

— Samuel Butler

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

— Edward Abbey

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living...

— Taylor Caldwell

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

— Fran Drescher

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

— Rod Serling

“All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

I read two books at a time. One that is heavy and one that makes for light reading.

— Vikram Bhatt

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

— Jerzy Kosinski