Writer Quotes · Page 328

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

— Rita Mae Brown

“Reading Is To The Mind What Exercis Is To The Body .”

— Jospeh Addison

Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.

— Max Boot

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

— Ian Mcewan

“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries”

— Jo Walton

I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.

— Taylor Swift

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

“Every writer at least once in his/er lifetime creates a character who loves books.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

— Bruce Barton

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

— Dana Spiotta

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need…

— Richard K. Morgan

“An essential element of being a writer is learning whom to listen to and whom to ignore where your work is concerned.…

— Ann Patchett

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…

— Joan Didion

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right…

— Diane Johnson

I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the…

— Charles Bukowski

I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that…

— Nadine Gordimer

“Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I want to talk about creating your life. There’s a quote I love, from the poet Mary Oliver, that goes: Tell me,…

— Laini Taylor

“. . . I understand that I was writing (recording) as well as seeking to right (to rectify) the wrong, and now,…

— Sandra M. Gilbert

Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself…

— Jack Heffron

The first draft you're pretty much on your own, so I love that. I can let my imagination go wild. I just…

— Linda Woolverton

“A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those…

— Maureen Johnson

“The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at…

— Jules Verne

“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.”

— Peter Davis

Jamie Oliver's books are the best. I love Jamie. Bless him!

— Twiggy

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

— Neil Gaiman

I spend a lot of time reading. Also, I pen down my thoughts and perceptions about books I read.

— Mayank Agarwal

“A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.”

— David Almond

“I’m getting tempted to visit the Bookhouse myself. No telling what else you’d find on those shelves.”

— Mark Frost

“He was looking forward to letting Joanne know, in a casual way, that he had read these books.”

— Ken Follett

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

— Rosellen Brown

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

— James M. Cain

“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”

— Augustine Birrell

“I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Take a deep breath, open your eyes, and close the book.”

— Gabriel Bá

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

— Robert B. Parker

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

— Fay Weldon

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

— Marguerite Young

“Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.”

— Emilie and Stephanie