Writer Quotes · Page 313

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

— Mark Millar

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

— Matthew Specktor

Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

— Peter S. Prescott

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

— John Green

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

— Kate Nash

I'm a good essay writer, I know how to write. I was just good at it.

— Benny the Butcher

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

— Frances McDormand

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

— Anonymous

I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of…

— Amy Bloom

“My bookcase is all yours." I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the…

— Kasie West

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

— Charles Clarke

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

— Victor Hugo

“Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who…

— Jeanette Winterson

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or…

— Amy Tan

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like…

— Marianne Williamson

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

— Barrett Wendell

The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be…

— Alix Kates Shulman

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes…

— Joanne Harris

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to…

— Alessandra Torre

As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional,…

— Alex Kurtzman

You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings…

— Ford Madox Ford

I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can…

— Rachel DeWoskin

The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That…

— Cate Marvin

“As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”

— Stephen Colbert

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

— Ethel Wilson

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

— Jimmy Breslin

“Finish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.”

— Joe Hill

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

— Erin Gruwell

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

— Marilyn Hacker

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

— Dan Barker

I have an uncomfortable groove, 'cause I have a lot of different kinds of stories to tell.

— Richard Linklater

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read.”

— Alain de Botton

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.

— Marge Piercy

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

— China Mieville

“Don't write 40k if the same story can be told in 10k words.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.”

— Quentin R. Bufogle

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

— Miriam Toews