Writer Quotes · Page 387

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

— Eudora Welty

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

— Michael Dirda

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

— Kent McCord

The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.

— Mike Carey

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

— Guy Kawasaki

“Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives.”

— Ruta Sepetys

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

— Aaron Sorkin

You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

— A.M. Homes

If I'm really immersed in a story, I try to finish it in a few days. If it's a longer work, then…

— Ruskin Bond

“I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I…

— William Saroyan

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least…

— Anatole Broyard

After watching 'Dangal,' I called my writer and told him that I wanted to do a sports film for Punjab because no…

— Ammy Virk

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

— Rachel Cohn

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks!…

— William Wordsworth

“She would read anything from a dictionary to a treatise on turnips. Print fascinated her, dazed her, made her good for nothing...Kylie…

— Kylie Tennant

“After all, one of life’s best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most…

— William T. Vollmann

“Having something worth telling and a passion to tell it are what make you a good writer. I can't tell you how…

— Chris Colfer

“Books are the ultimate ride-or-die companions. They’re always there, never cancel plans, and don’t care if you’re in your pajamas. They offer…

— Life is Positive

Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous…

— Lynn Austin

I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them.…

— Darren Boyd

“Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in…

— Laura Hendrie

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but…

— John M. Ford

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So…

— Cassandra Clare

A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.

— George P Elliott

Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.

— Fred Kaplan

“It is noble to write as one thinks; this is the privilege of humanity.”

— Voltaire

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

— Graham Greene

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

— Philip Larkin

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

— Taylor Caldwell

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

— John Cheever

“An insightful book possesses the ability to speak to you”

— I.R. Shankar

I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No.

— Melvyn Bragg

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

— E. M. Forster

“Writing is not that easy, but it's obviously fun and I like it.”

— Alvi Syahrin

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

— Ray Bradbury

“The paradox of writing is that you’re trying to use words to express what words can’t express.”

— Stephen Fischer

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

— Arthur Miller

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

— Stephen King

“That was one of the bad things about being able to read: people could nag you from a great distance.”

— Ruth Downie