Writer Quotes · Page 318

“Write for love, edit for perfection & publish to share that moment in time”

— Debbie Behan

“Just write what You want to write, how You want to write it! K.D.Faerydae”

— K.D. Faerydae

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

— Jim Crace

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

— Stephen King

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

— Alec Baldwin

“If you don't love to read, you just haven't found the right book.”

— Tim Green

There comes a time when you have to chose between turning the page and closing the book…

— Melchor Lim

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

— Paulo Coelho

All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox…

— Julia Leigh

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection…

— Marianne Williamson

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live…

— Moss Hart

I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps…

— Michael Ian Black

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

— Dan Brown

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Gardens are poems Where you stroll with your hands in your pockets. (Les jardins sont des poemes Ou l'on se promene les…

— Pierre Albert-Birot

“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I think the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is less about “Did it really happen or was it made up?” than it…

— Geoff Dyer

“For Gone Girl, I knew Nick and Amy had to be very believable, so I made ipod playlists for them, and knew…

— Gillian Flynn

“Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the…

— Helen Dunmore

One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning…

— Neil Gaiman

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But…

— Carolyn Wells

If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up…

— George Saunders

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be…

— George Orwell

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

— Lee Child

“Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.”

— Peggy A. Borel

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

— Tama Janowitz

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.

— Chrissy Costanza

“Killed by a librarian with a red card," said Jerry. "that's got to be embarrassing.”

— John Joseph Adams

Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

I've always written about stuff I have gone through.

— Adam Gontier

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

— Miguel de Unamuno

“I was fortunate to attend a school with an excellent library”

— Syrie James

I'm not a good business person when it comes to my writing.

— Tanya Saracho

Write a lot and don't think about publishing - just the writing.

— Jeffrey Brown

“Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.”

— Paul Acampora

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

— James C. Collins

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson