Writer Quotes · Page 355

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

— Robert Breault

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

— Alice Kahn

If you yourself don't know how to carry pencil, don't wish someone to teach you to write.

— Voeun Tivea

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

— Terry Pratchett

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

— Paul Auster

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

— Michael Morpurgo

“The best books inspire you to be better and get up and do something!”

— Storytime Corner

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to…

— Anonymous

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the…

— Jimmy Breslin

“I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.”

— Lang Leav

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like…

— Margaret Atwood

I'm a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was…

— John Thune

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for…

— Piers Anthony

“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the…

— James Rozoff

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

“Even though I'm an ordinary writer, I too, have trouble when it come to writing along the way. But at least I…

— Simi Sunny

“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture…

— Camilo Gomes Jr

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen.…

— Colum McCann

“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is…

— Andrew Clements

“A library is more than a brick and mortar building filled with delicious books. It is also a community of people who…

— ALA

For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it…

— Sampha

I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who…

— George R. R. Martin

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

— Mark Kurlansky

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

— Anonymous

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Beat up old books still have hope and life in their pages." :) :)”

— Hanna Gritton

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

— Anonymous

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

— Nate Berkus

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

— Ernest Gaines

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

— Michael McKean

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

— Al Alvarez

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

— Terry Pratchett

“Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.”

— T.R. Wallace

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

— Sigmund Freud

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

— Tom Bissell

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

— Anonymous

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

— Megan Whalen Turner