Writer Quotes · Page 310

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

— James Russell Lowell

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

— Mercedes Ruehl

“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.”

— Catherine Carrigan

“The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.”

— Khaled Talib

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

— Larry David

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

— Alice Munro

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop…

— Jim Rohn

The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath…

— robert m drake

The really great writers are people like Emily Bront� who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and…

— James A. Michener

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete…

— Emilie Autumn

“Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so…

— Anne Lamott

There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that…

— Andy Daly

“The struggle to write continues within me. I aim to write with more depth, clarity, purpose, and substance.”

— Avijeet Das

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the…

— Anthony Bourdain

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about…

— Hazel Rochman

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so;…

— Jane Austen

“Now here's the heavy irony. So I went back to New York to become a librarian. To actually seek out this thing…

— Elaine Dundy

“Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read…

— Jonathan Franzen

As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer…

— Robert Macfarlane

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.”

— Nelson Algren

“By its very nature, a writer’s mind is a monkey mind — and meditation, alas, kills the monkey.”

— Mara Altman

“Apparently the law of Inertia affects writing too.”

— A.A. Cheshire

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

— Cheech Marin

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections.

— Firoozeh Dumas

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him.

— Vikrant Parsai

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]

— Ernst Junger

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

— Edna O'Brien

“Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.”

— Horace Mann

“Gone was the meek little librarian. Gavin made me wanton and reckless”

— Kendall Ryan

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

— Voltaire

“A writer's mind is a place where demons kill angels in disguise.”

— Ram Vignesh