Writer Quotes · Page 338

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

— Tom Schulman

“Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own.”

— Kiera Cass

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

— Colum McCann

This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.

— Quentin S. Crisp

Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

— Robin Skelton

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

— Nathan Fillion

In Colombia is where I discovered myself as a writer.

— Nicky Jam

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

— William Faulkner

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to…

— Adam Clarke

“When fiction collides with reality, it's time to get fired up. There are great stories being generated out there by real events…

— Gregory S. Lamb

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to…

— Molly Ringwald

Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite…

— Kevin Barry

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be…

— Arundhati Roy

“Just forget the world and its naysayers. Close the door and write. Let them talk while you're building your future.”

— Ksenia Anske

“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the…

— Todd Crawshaw

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising…

— Steve Bisley

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say,…

— Marya Hornbacher

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I…

— Salman Rushdie

I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with…

— Boris Pasternak

“There’s a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and…

— Harvey Pekar

“When a hot trend turns into a sub-category, new strictures arise along with it. Tropes turn into shortcuts, character paradigms become cardboard…

— Donald Maass

“No matter how self-aware you are, memoir wrenches at your insides precisely because it makes you battle with your very self –…

— Mary Karr

“How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.”

— Eilis O'Neal

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,

— Herta Muller

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

— Ernest Hemingway

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

— Neil Gaiman

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

— Tobias Smollett

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

— Joe Haldeman

I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

— Colson Whitehead

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

— Virat Kohli

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

— Anonymous

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

I never write. Never! I do not even remember if I can write.

— Young Thug

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

— Anonymous

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

— Prue Leith

“Since I have become a slave of writing, the pleasure of reading has ended for me.”

— Italo Calvino