Writer Quotes · Page 304

Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.

— Dorothea Brande

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

— Om Puri

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

— Cornelia Funke

“It's only a book. But what it means to write a book.”

— Chaim Potok

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

— Victor Hugo

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

— Anonymous

“An author is just someone who remembers their dreams a little better than some others.”

— T.C. Slonaker

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

— Thomas Kinkade

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that…

— Dean Koontz

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way…

— Herta Muller

“In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

— Raymond Carver

“She had her head in a book. Like me she preferred reading about travel to actually traveling; it was so much more…

— Zanesh Catkin

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him…

— Conor Oberst

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

— Joseph Brodsky

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say…

— Jorge Amado

“But none of them taught me the things I learned from Carrie White. The most important is that the writer’s original perception…

— Stephen King

I see the emphasis on a lot of ideas and I know that's directed at me. [Megan Chance] come up with an…

— Megan Chance

I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look…

— Lucas Neff

The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at…

— Seamus Heaney

'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how…

— Grace Paley

We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's…

— Otis Chandler

There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want…

— Scott Berkun

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then…

— Jonathan Carroll

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

— Anonymous

Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute.

— Mary Kay Andrews

We have to make writing a viable career for all the people who get into this skill.

— Quinta Brunson

I don't write. I couldn't even fill a team sheet in.

— Harry Redknapp

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

— Cate Marvin

“The world is a book, and he who does not travel reads only a page.”

— St Augustine

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

— Heinrich Heine

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

— Orson Scott Card

When I did the zero draft for Six of Crows,' it was a very organic process.

— Leigh Bardugo

“I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.”

— Richard Peck

I don't want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not.

— Ajith Kumar

I'm one of those people who had written my will by the age of 35.

— Tess Daly

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

— Anthony Powell

It's easier to write about what you know. I wouldn't write about a Wall Street broker, for example.

— Jean Kerr

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

— Ben Katchor

“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.”

— Katherine Paterson