Writer Quotes · Page 325

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

— Gertrude Atherton

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

— Isabel Allende

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

— David Guterson

To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.

— Amity Gaige

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

— Mary Roach

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

— Seamus Heaney

Style matters, but the real force of writing is ideas, not style.

— Douglas Brunt

Some days writing flows like a stream and there are times I get stuck.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

— Tahereh Mafi

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

— Eric Brown

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why…

— Stephen King

“What is writing? It’s me, the author, taking the state inside my mind and, via the gift of language, grafting it onto…

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what…

— Susan Sontag

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Take life as a book. You move on and you turn a page you remember what has happened and your memories are…

— Amber

Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.

— Northrop Frye

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to…

— Adam Ross

“Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls…

— Mark David Gerson

Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any…

— Sylvia Plath

Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm not saying don't do the work you got, but instead of this two hours of watching TV at the hotel lobby…

— Andy Andrews

Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters…

— Jay Asher

I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still…

— Jon Scieszka

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words…

— George R. R. Martin

“Reading shows us how to be better human beings, not just successful worker bees.”

— Donalyn Miller

It's great to read something that's both enjoyable and porvdies pragmatisdc solutions.

— Bobbie

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

— Fran Lebowitz

“No one can tell you what you can and cannot put in your book. So be brave and just write!”

— Chrys Fey

“A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.”

— Chris Brady

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

— Amy Tan

Life is like a Book.Don't try to open my book if you are not going to read it

— Sushan Sharma

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

— Stephen King

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

— Mary Downing Hahn

“After I read a good book I have a hard time coping with reality.”

— Anonymous

“An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!”

— Johanna Oznowicz

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

— John Burnside

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Writing isn't everyone's favorite thing to do or what their thing is.

— Lee DeWyze

“I love the coffee shops and reading rooms where one can sit and talk or browse forever. I”

— Gloria Steinem

“A book is like a treasure chest, waiting to be opened and discovered.”

— Kitty Paw