Writer Quotes · Page 379

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

— Phil Hartman

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

— Raymond Carver

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

— Glen Hirshberg

“For dramatic variation, write a sentence with subject and verb near the end.”

— Roy Peter Clark

“When you write, you should put your skin on the table.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Hardin, Garrett, Filters Against Folly (New York: Penguin, 1985).”

— John Michael Greer

A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I…

— Kim Smith

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories,…

— Dario Argento

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting…

— Augusten Burroughs

“A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.”

— Anonymous

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our…

— John Larroquette

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm…

— Fran Lebowitz

When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance…

— Mike Flanagan

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called…

— Lucy Corin

I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like…

— John Brandon

“Diane sometimes hears that Troy is an actuary. Sometimes she hears Troy is a florist. Sometimes she hears Troy is a cop,…

— Joseph Fink

“As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us…

— Clifton Fadiman

“I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo…

— R. Alan Woods

“Yes, she’s fine. She’s rereading one of your books. There’s not many authors she likes, so if there’s nothing new, she just…

— Richard Paul Evans

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be…

— Clifton Fadiman

Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc.…

— Georges Perec

“I lay the book on the floor, open to the middle. It's a lovely volume, green leather covers, engraved endpapers. I remove…

— Lou Beach

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

— Anonymous

Everyone has a certain amount of bad writing to get out of their system.

— Elif Batuman

“Many books have been written on Thomas Merton already.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese proverb”

— shared by my mom Hazel Lock

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

— Mohsin Hamid

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

— Laura Miller

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

— Kenneth Patchen

“You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.”

— Lauren Oliver

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

— Peter Carey

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

— Richard Bach

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

— Zelda Popkin

“I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.”

— Tom Conrad

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

— Jim Rohn

“Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.”

— Arlaina Tibensky

Everybody can't be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.

— Tyrann Mathieu