Writer Quotes · Page 332

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

— John Updike

One Good Book Is Equal To, Hundred Good Friend's But One Good Friend Is Equal To A Liabary.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

— Guy Kawasaki

Disparage no book, for it is also a part of the world.

— Nachman of Breslov

“... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.”

— Mike Bryan

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

— Gore Vidal

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

— Jerry Seinfeld

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What…

— Neil Gaiman

“Literature had taken possession even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with certain characters in the old novels...”

— Virginia Woolf

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do…

— Richard North Patterson

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself…

— Haruki Murakami

Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.”

— Pat Conroy

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only…

— T.S. Eliot

... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy,…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn’t know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided…

— Richmal Crompton

I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when…

— Justine Larbalestier

To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly…

— Aldous Huxley

“In a library in Missouri that was covered with vines Lived thousands of books in a hundred straight lines A boy came…

— Rebecca Makkai

Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers…

— Michael Rosen

As a writer, I spend a lot of time alone, and I like it. I'm also a long-distance runner, and I love…

— Michael Finkel

Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever…

— Peter Mayle

I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.

— Sally Rooney

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

— Markus Zusak

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

— Janis Ian

“Let me read to you,” said Roger Nowell. “It is a night for reading.”

— Jeanette Winterson

I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.

— Grace Ogot

“Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.”

— H L Mencken

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

— Charles Bukowski

“A pen is not just a writing instrument, it's an object of creation.”

— Ayanda Xaba

“When I open a book, I enter a world that no one can take me away from.”

— Anonymous

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

— Joyce Maynard

“Better to find out certain things by living them, not by reading them in a book.”

— Susanna Kearsley

“That’s what books do, isn’t it? That’s why I love to read. They bring us closer to ourselves.”

— Lisa Scottoline

“the only test any book should ever have to pass is whether the reader likes it”

— Clay Shirky

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

— Robert Breault

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

— Pat Conroy