Writer Quotes · Page 293

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

— Anonymous

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

— Wallace Shawn

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Writing can make life enjoyable, write your dreams…”

— Wanda Smith

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

— Chad Harbach

Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

— Anthony McCarten

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

— Ernest Dimnet

Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative…

— Kristina McMorris

Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through…

— Cheyenne McCray

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show -…

— Alberto Manguel

I am gonna write a book about my life, that way at least I will get paid for people being in my…

— Anonymous

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the…

— Nick McDonell

“I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like…

— Joshilyn Jackson

[When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve…

— Emily Haines

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I…

— Paul Auster

It's really important for kids to read right through childhood but I know sometimes it's hard to get them to read. The…

— Israel Folau

Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with…

— Dirk Wittenborn

The other reason I didn't want to fictionalize it is because one of the main points of publishing a memoir in nonfiction…

— Melissa Febos

In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man’s life…

— Jessica Helfand

When I receive a box of my books, my impulse is to hide rather than display them. It always makes me very…

— Katie Kitamura

Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over…

— Sylvia Plath

We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.

— Sheila Bender

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

— Grace Paley

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— Pankaj Sundali

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

I don't leave the house without a book, and I never watch television without one, either.

— Adriana Trigiani

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

— John Alfred Langford

“A novel is a made-up work about made-up people in a made-up place, all of which is very real.”

— Thomas C. Foster

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

— Patti Smith

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

— Virginia Woolf

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

— Philip Roth

“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.”

— Sanhita Baruah

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

— Neil Gaiman

As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.

— Tom Skerritt

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

— Dacia Maraini

They always compare my 'Crazy Story' to Meek's 'Tony Story.'

— King Von