Writer Quotes · Page 359

An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots.

— Rajkumar Hirani

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

— Robert Stone

I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

— Stephen King

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

— David McCullough

“Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.”

— Virginia Woolf

Dont like sittin the pen it stinks, but in brooklyn we sit in the pens like ink.

— Papoose

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

— Amy Winehouse

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can…

— Anne Lamott

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's…

— Louise Penny

“I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction.”

— Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy…

— Ellen Potter

I write problems down on paper and then burn them. I suppose you could do that with physical possessions, too. You can…

— Lou Sanders

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

— Tom Peters

“I come here to read. Dream. Relax. Find bits and pieces of myself I’m afraid I may not find elsewhere...”

— Scott Hildreth

My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!

— Ken Spillman

Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered…

— Martin Buber

“Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed…

— Wil Zeus

“Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon,…

— Koren Zailckas

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had…

— Terry Pratchett

For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood…

— Anne Tyler

I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is,…

— Annette Bening

“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

— Sonnia Kemmer

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

— Gail Tsukiyama

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

— Christopher Paolini

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

— Marie Lu

“Reading is a sojourn that takes you round the world without having to move a feet.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.”

— David S.E. Zapanta

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

— Louis L'Amour

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

— John Grisham

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

— Hugh Leonard

Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love.

— Christine Sneed

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“As much as I hate to admit it, books have limitations. Over”

— Daisy Hernandez

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

— Patrick Modiano

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

— Youth Lagoon

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.

— Stephen Chbosky