Writer Quotes · Page 329

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

— Gertrude Stein

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

— David Almond

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

— Mark Foley

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

— Robert Ben Garant

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

— Paul Auster

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to…

— Gertrude Stein

“We always hide our souls whenever we create something that praises the heart.”

— Laura Chouette

“I read a lot...I love books. I work with books. Books are my life.”

— The Distant Hours Kate Morton

“I feel so lucky at being able to do what I love. Writing has proved to be a fascinating journey – without…

— Elizabeth Buchan

I'm like the book which almost everyone seems to skim through the pages but never reads the whole story.

— Anonymous

I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm…

— Marti Noxon

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies,…

— Travis Tritt

The only way to raise the quality of writing in school is to create, share, and celebrate the specific criteria for that…

— Barry Lane

“First, you don't have to be smart to read books. Lots of idiots read books. Trust me, the ability to read does…

— Marie Sexton

“I don't write to be seen, I write so the world can see. I don't write to be heard, I write so…

— Abhijit Naskar

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track…

— Dawn Powell

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,…

— Joan Didion

On a spectrum of literary productions, memoir is just another form. If the person doing the reviewing or critiquing was ill-educated about…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer…

— Jamie Weise

“For is not a Book the most reliable of Companions--and generally among the most stimulating as well? No need to worry about…

— Natalie Wexler

“I just...," Cath started again: "I realized that I'm not cut out for fiction-writing." Professor Piper blinked and pulled her head back.…

— Rainbow Rowell

Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday…

— Anonymous

I think that writing is a process that tells you what you think. You sometimes actually don't know what your opinion is…

— Jerry Saltz

“I was just turned last week. I'm a librarian." He stilled, as if I'd just told him I was the inventor of…

— Molly Harper

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

— Kathryn Harrison

“he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life”

— Margot Livesey

“real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk but of darkness and silence”

— Marcel Proust

Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Books and reading were my escape. A way to leave this world”

— Jani Kay

“Priya Gowda had never met a book she wouldn't read, and she'd met a lot of them.”

— Faith Mudge

The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are.

— Richard Flanagan

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

— Anthony Doerr

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— Richard Rhodes

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

— Anonymous

“Writing is not about ideas, it is about the expression of ideas - a written expression.”

— Paul Raymond Martin

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience…

— Joseph Joubert

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

— William Faulkner