Writer Quotes · Page 37

TV is a writer's medium.

— Sara Ramirez

Suggestion is a literary strategy.

— Samuel R. Delany

“Writing is the emotional morphine.”

— Mariam Maarouf

Books always speak of other books.

— Umberto Eco

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

— Anonymous

A writer needs a life of introspection.

— Tom Robbins

“It was the sort of bookshop that stole time...”

— Veronica Henry

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

— Arnon Grunberg

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

— Sylvia Plath

“Reading is a window that reflects a whole new world”

— Muatau

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

— Robin Hobb

I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction.

— Volker Bertelmann

“I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.”

— Anonymous

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

— Thomas Middleditch

“This Book [is] the most valuable thing that this world affords.”

— Anonymous

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of…

— Yann Martel

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man…

— James Thurber

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting.…

— Teju Cole

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible…

— Jonathan Lethem

Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get…

— Robin Sloan

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going…

— Shonda Rhimes

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people,…

— Anonymous

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history…

— Amy Bloom

“I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get…

— Jan Marquart

“No one has expressed it better than a great novelist I heard once on a talk show who said something like "You…

— Anne Lamott

For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves…

— Stefan Zweig

“The whole world can be divided into those who write and those who do not write. Those who write represent despair, and…

— Søren Kierkegaard

When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though…

— Aaron Swartz

“As much as possible, I am trying to create agency in my young writers. Students who have acquired agency don’t need the…

— Kelly Gallagher

Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism…

— Sue Grafton

“~Reading a book is like looking through a window!”

— Zetta Hupf

I don't like to write boring books.

— Frank Peretti

“nothing furnishes a room like books”

— Terry Fallis

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

When I'm writing I get easily bored.

— Herman Koch

Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.

— Dav Pilkey

I'm way into writing, as much as I can.

— Brooke Hogan