Writer Quotes · Page 321

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

— Sharon Creech

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

— George Orwell

But who has time to write memoirs? Im still living my memoirs

— Anonymous

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

— Dave Barry

“The last page of a book is a sacred space that even lovers respect.”

— Tor Udall

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

— Stephen King

I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

“Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.”

— Virginia Woolf

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing…

— Dawn French

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business…

— Paulo Coelho

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more…

— John F. Kennedy

“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”

— Nelson Algren

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals…

— Ayn Rand

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such…

— Samuel Butler

I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.

— Ann Coulter

If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out…

— Louis C. K

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the…

— Flannery O'Connor

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each…

— Sting

“...the experience of reading a novel has certain qualities that remind us of the traditional apprehension of mythology. It can be seen…

— Karen Armstrong

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general:…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I still care about physical books, gravitate to handsome editions and pretty dust jackets, and enjoy seeing rows of hardcovers on my…

— Michael Dirda

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other…

— Deb Caletti

“I am, apparently, of that rare breed that likes to write. The demands of a chapter pull me from bed in the…

— David Freeman Hawke

“All writers struggle at some point with the problem of balance between authority and involvement, seduction and revelation. Specifically, beginning writers wonder…

— Julie Checkoway

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

— David McCullough

Dont like sittin the pen it stinks, but in brooklyn we sit in the pens like ink.

— Papoose

An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots.

— Rajkumar Hirani

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

— Robert Stone

“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

— Sonnia Kemmer

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

— Christopher Paolini

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

— Gail Tsukiyama

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

— Amy Winehouse

“As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.”

— David S.E. Zapanta

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

— Louis L'Amour

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

— Marie Lu

“Reading is a sojourn that takes you round the world without having to move a feet.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“As much as I hate to admit it, books have limitations. Over”

— Daisy Hernandez

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

— Patrick Modiano

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

— Youth Lagoon