Writer Quotes · Page 331

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

— Gunter Brus

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

— Anonymous

“g sees himself as an independent reader: he buys all of the books on the literary prize lists.”

— Joanna Walsh

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.

— Susie Bright

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

— Roman Abramovich

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

— Stephen D. Krashen

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

— Adam Duritz

“You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.”

— Greg Kihn

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this…

— Charles R. Schwab

Writing is both my expression to the world and my way to hide from it - you get who I am without…

— Paige

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

— Ezra Pound

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write…

— Astrid Lindgren

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't…

— Gavid Hood

“I like to be around all these books. It’s like having a million friends, wrapped in paper and scrawled in ink.”

— Melissa Grey

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most…

— Terry McMillan

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent of wwriting, but I couldn't give up, because by the time,…

— Robert Benchley

“The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of other people's folly, not to mention their avarice…

— Roger Lowenstein

I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders,…

— James V. Schall

“One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it…

— Steven T. Seagle

I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not…

— Jack Kerouac

“It was funny about writing. It was like flying or driving or playing an instrument. When you were doing it like you…

— Jennifer Niven

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head…

— Patricia Briggs

“Cozy place you got here,” he said, looking around the office. “You read all them books?” “I fear not. But one cannot…

— Sharon Lee

If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which,…

— Christopher Paolini

I think I would die if I couldn't get to the typewriter every day. I really need that.

— Frank Deford

“And I will write this down / And then I will not be alone again”

— Dar Williams

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

— Francisco Costa

“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.”

— Kami Garcia

The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

— Ray Bradbury

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

— Dan Chaon

“As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.”

— Julie Rodelli

When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.

— Lydia Davis

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

— Ray Bradbury

“Seriously, deleting IS writing. It's not only adding words that count, cutting does too!”

— Diem Burden

“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” Somerset Maugham.”

— Gloria Steinem

“What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?”

— Laini Taylor

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

— R. L. Stine

“In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.”

— Andre Malraux