Writer Quotes · Page 300

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

“It made them feel, as all good books do, less alone.”

— Jason Fagone

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

— Martin Amis

“Life can't be divided into chapters...only minutes.”

— Colleen Hoover

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

— James Welch

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

— Arundhati Roy

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you…

— George Singleton

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north…

— Monica Ali

“And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia Plath to the point…

— Megan McCafferty

“Well, you mind you manners and don't raise your voice. You know what your mamma used to say. Any book is a…

— Kami Garcia

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up…

— Neil Gaiman

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot…

— Wendy Cope

My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.

— Laurie Graham

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my…

— Jackson Browne

“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with divine pleasure.…

— Pat Conroy

When I first did 'Empire,' it was a severe break from everything I'd written up to that point, which is all very…

— Mark Waid

Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it…

— Russell Smith

The Postman Always Rings Twice that's a book that I think every writer should read - that has to do with technique.…

— Jonathan Dee

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books,…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt…

— Stephen King

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and…

— Erica Jong

I try to craft books that are fun, that are sort of subversively educational so kids learn but they don't really feel…

— Rick Riordan

“Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.”

— Anonymous

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

— E. B. White

“For me, there is no separation. Writing is the center… But it’s all critical.”

— Christina Katz

“When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.”

— C.E.McLean

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

— Richard Armour

Reading has been a part of my life ever since I was born.

— Marley Dias

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

— Jami Attenberg

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

— Donna Tartt

Which book you cannot find in a library? Cheque-books.

— Muskaan

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

— Adam Duritz

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Reading. I can get lost in a world and spend days there.”

— C.M. Stunich

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

— Norman MacCaig

“He wore binoculars around his neck the way librarians wear their glasses.”

— Jane Hamilton

Everything I say about [writing] battles applies equally well in the boudoir.

— Chris Humphreys

Writing about Jerusalem was very stressful; every word counts.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore