Writer Quotes · Page 327

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

— Aaron Carter

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

— Jim C. Hines

“Let the barbarians burn the library, the ideas are what's important.”

— Marc Read

“I read to escape...I write to help others escape... --Howard Hopkins, Author of The Chloe Files”

— Howard Hopkins

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

— George Clooney

“No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

— Tomi Adeyemi

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to…

— Martin Amis

Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person…

— Rachel Bloom

“All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of…

— Rawi Hage

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a…

— Ravi Shankar

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going…

— Don Winslow

I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join…

— Anne Roiphe

Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that…

— Stanley Unwin

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I…

— Margaret Haddix

I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their…

— Finn Wittrock

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether…

— Lisa Edelstein

When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in…

— Joanna Scott

I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on…

— Tavi Gevinson

“The richest person in the world - in fact, all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like…

— Malcolm Forbes

Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world…

— Zadie Smith

I think that most of my writer friends are really compulsive. I think that's great. It's wonderful for them. It's just not…

— Junot Diaz

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There…

— Leslie Cockburn

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

— Alain de Botton

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

— Anonymous

“I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.”

— Wendell Berry

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

— Fred Saberhagen

First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing.

— Gyles Brandreth

Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

— Jane Green

If you can get kids excited about reading, maybe that can open up a whole other world for them.

— Sean Doolittle

“Digital distribution has widened the reading world.”

— Sara Sheridan

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint

— John Stuart Mill

“Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Books have a curious effect on those with certain predispositions to fall into obsession.”

— Kane X. Faucher

It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.

— Ace Young

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

— Diablo Cody

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

— Hisham Matar

A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short.

— Ellen Glasgow

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams