Writer Quotes · Page 305

Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books

— Robert Benchley

“Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.”

— V.C. Andrews

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

— Carlos Fuentes

“I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.”

— Wilco

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

— Iris DeMent

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

— Orson Scott Card

“When you’re a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.”

— Theodora Goss

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

— Warren Zevon

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The…

— Steven Johnson

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to…

— Russell Kirk

“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story…

— Charlotte Eriksson

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else…

— J. E. Buckrose

I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.

— Cynthia Rylant

I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in…

— Ann Patchett

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would…

— Richard Lugar

Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written…

— John D'Agata

I have a strong work ethic, yet I'm incredibly lazy as well. The problem with being a writer is that everything you…

— Ian Rankin

“A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a…

— Anatole Broyard

“And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places the flow of…

— D.H. Lawrence

“On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next…

— Margaret Atwood

“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations…

— Richard Grossman

I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so…

— Gabe Polsky

“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it . . . They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and…

— Rebecca Solnit

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

“Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters”

— Lucy Coats

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

— Nora Roberts

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

— Vikram Seth

“Giving a child a book is better than any toy you can buy, even a fidget spinner.”

— Sonia Cunningham Leverette

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

— Martin Luther

Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'

— Marti Noxon

My first novel was a critical success in a matter of weeks.

— Christine Leunens

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

— Abraham Lincoln

Everything maybe pre-written but nothing is rewritten.

— Anonymous

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

— Julia Cameron

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

— Shelby Foote

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

— Andrew Lang

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

— Harry Turtledove

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

— Tyler Cowen