Writer Quotes · Page 351

I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

— Karin Slaughter

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

— Jennifer Haigh

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

— Alexander Pope

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

— T. J. Miller

“Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.”

— Quentin R. Bufogle

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

— Tony Hillerman

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

— Miriam Toews

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

— Chance The Rapper

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey…

— Joyce Meyer

People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'

— Mayte Garcia

The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and…

— James Lee Burke

When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

— Edna O'Brien

Reading has helped motivate me to become a spokesperson for programs like the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. It has motivated me to become…

— Rey Mysterio

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years…

— E M Forster

I have been privileged to write across multiple facets of my life: to write romance novels, to write memoir, to write about…

— Stacey Abrams

“I actually like it. It does everything I want a word processing program to do, and it doesn't do anything else. I…

— George R.R. Martin

Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred -…

— Anne Lamott

“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves…

— Lawrence Wright

“It was [John Gardner's] conviction that if the words in the story were blurred because of the author's insensitivity, carelessness, or sentimentality,…

— Raymond Carver

Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting…

— Fay Weldon

“Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical…

— John Irving

Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.

— Claire Tomalin

“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.”

— Stephen King

Write for the love of writing and you can't go wrong.

— Christopher Paul Curtis

I nearly always write — just as I nearly always breathe.

— John Steinbeck

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

— Mary Gauthier

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

— Tom Stoppard

I just feel like myself when I'm writing. If I don't do it, I get depressed.

— Olivia Rodrigo

Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.

— Jean Smart

“If I could choose I would rather be happy than write.”

— Jean Rhys

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

— Eloisa James

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.”

— robert m drake

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

— Anonymous

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.”

— Ruth Ozeki