Writer Quotes · Page 353

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

— Tom Perrotta

“Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them”

— Malebo Sephodi

“No one ever goes to libraries. And they know ALL the good stuff. (Layla Miller)”

— Craig Kyle and Chris Yost

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.”

— Osamu Dazai

You know there's some great folks, great story telling at 'Dateline,' and I'm glad to be a part of it.

— Lester Holt

“Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.”

— Heath White

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a…

— John Irving

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and…

— Charles de Lint

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

— Raymond Chandler

I don't have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called "conceptual writing." The…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

I don't need to do things I'm not capable of to please others.I am the director of my life,the writer of my…

— Abhishek Tiwari

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that…

— Marlon Brando

“The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet…

— Samuel Johnson

Writing with a partner is, in some ways, an easy but odd process. Two people come into a room and look to…

— Barry Levinson

When I grow bored, pick up the pen and begin thinking. Thinking and writing because it's chasing a dream, hoping to be…

— Raghib Clitso

“The truth is out there, but the truth also seems to be very subjective. With access to so many types of information,…

— Gina Sheridan

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places…

— Neil Gaiman

“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But…

— Robert Masello

"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the…

— Alan Lightman

“I could write paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.”

— Ally Condie

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

— Henny Youngman

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

— F. H. Bradley

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

— Candace Bushnell

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

— John Millington Synge

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

— C. S. Forester

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

— Charles Baxter

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

— Janet Evanovich

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

— Randy Pausch

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

— Virginia Woolf

I want to write a story for people where they finish it, and it sticks with them.

— Sylvia Day

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

— Susan Sontag

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow