Writer Quotes · Page 31

“Write, write, write”

— Shaun Herbert

I am a public library

— Tony Benn

I'm addicted to writing.

— Sefi Atta

I love great writing.

— Bill Duke

I write slowly.

— Yann Martel

Reading gave me hope.

— Oprah Winfrey

I NEVER FINISH ANYTHI

— Richie

Writing makes me happy.

— Gretchen Rubin

“Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”

— Richard Peck

“Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.”

— Md. Mujib Ullah

I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

— Merle Haggard

You can't write if you can't relate.

— Beck

“Information that a book possesses is made of time”

— Sunday Adelaja

We don't simply read books. We become them.

— Anatole Broyard

“Reading is an addiction that I adore.”

— Vianka Van Bokkem

I guess there are never enough books.

— John Steinbeck

For me, using a notebook every day keeps me on track! Some people use planners; those are great, too.

— Rachel Hollis

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

— Ray Bradbury

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

— Joe Strummer

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

— Richard Bach

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

— David Hare

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

— Phoebe Bridgers

Yes, I write a lot of my own stuff. I love to write, it allows you to be real and show yourself.

— Ray J

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

— Colum McCann

“For a writer, a break from working is nonexistent; while you fingers may stop typing, your brain never stops writing, developing, changing,…

— Nicole Gulla

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over…

— Jonathan Tropper

I never leave home without my writing notebook, and get a lot of writing done in transit. One great place to create…

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

“Writing isn't about racing to the finish line; it's about finding joy in each step of the process. If a writer focuses…

— Christopher Meyerhoeffer

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want…

— Aminatta Forna

“Anyway, sorry,” Jad says to me quietly. “We’ll be fine,” I say. “People still like the smell of books.”

— Robin Sloan

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out…

— Roddy Doyle

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during…

— Jeff Abbott

“There could be no better time to read THE END OF BLISS, Rhonda Cutler's beautifully researched and heartfelt novel about another of…

— Rhonda Ringler Cutler

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional…

— V. S. Naipaul

“I guess what I'm trying to say is that sometimes you can love a book not so much because of what it's…

— Sarah Combs

Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy…

— Elif Batuman

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I…

— Nicholas Sparks

I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative…

— Francisco Goldman

“I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and…

— Randy Ingermanson

Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that…

— Aaron Sorkin