Writer Quotes · Page 302

If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.

— Kate DiCamillo

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

— Ben Marcus

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

— Anthony Doerr

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

— Evangeline Lilly

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.

— Drew Barrymore

“Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds" ~Vianka Van Bokkem”

— Vianka Van Bokkem

“If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.”

— Linda Yezak

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

— David Byrne

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I read Nabakov for style, Mary Karr for heart and resonance of where I come from. She's from the same part of…

— Rodney Crowell

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

— Herta Muller

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of…

— John Darnielle

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their…

— Bill Gates

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I…

— Ken Follett

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven…

— R. L. Stine

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be…

— Irvine Welsh

I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's…

— M. H. Abrams

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone…

— Deborah Smith

Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular…

— Mordicai Gerstein

My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if…

— George Saunders

“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To…

— Virginia Woolf

“An increasing number of people are taking advantage of having a leg up on their competition by branding themselves as "the expert"…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes…

— Cynthia Ozick

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

— Sasha Alexander

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

— Ernest Hemingway

Every summer has a story and I wish these summer will be the best story I had.

— Leo

I'm not a big hijinker. I'm a big sit-in-my-chair-and-read-a-book-er.

— Amber Benson

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

— Joshua Ferris

To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.

— James Atlas

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

— Tom Wolfe

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.

— Hudson Stuck

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

— Kate Morton

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

— Anonymous

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

“Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.”

— Anonymous

It is not about of how many books you have, it is about of how you read them.

— Anonymous

“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.”

— robert m drake

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

— Lawrence Block

I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.

— Eric Bana