Writer Quotes · Page 399

It's important to write like your readers are brilliant.

— Joshua Mohr

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The most real dialogue for me is when I am alone, writing.

— Peter Handke

I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.

— Paul Harding

“You can “pants” your way through your novel, but you can’t “pants” your way to success.”

— Bob Mayer

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

— Tom Clancy

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

— Anonymous

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

— Iris Dement

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Stop trying to write a novel. Just tell a story, type it up, 1 hour every day, and by the end of…

— Ksenia Anske

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a…

— Michelle J. Howard

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of…

— James Frey

You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting…

— Larry Winget

“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to…

— Joan Didion

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

— Mary Karr

The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you…

— Anne Lamott

Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and…

— Julie Andrews

By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected…

— Roald Dahl

'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for…

— Richard Grenell

That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and…

— Nicole Krauss

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The…

— Akhil Sharma

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you…

— Ernest Hemingway

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write…

— Laura Riding

The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky'…

— James Fallows

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

— Jennifer Egan

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

— Harold Bloom

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

— Martin Amis

I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

— Carlene Carter

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

— Lauren Myracle

“I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.”

— Stephan Attia

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

— Tim O'Reilly

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

— Megan Chance

If life was a book I would read it all then re-read the amazing chapters.

— Damien Cantrell

“Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact.”

— Saru Singhal

“There's no reason, to talk about the books I read. But still I do.”

— Morrissey

“Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“And we’re going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take…

— Ernest Hemingway

“You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages”

— john j geddes

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

— Jeanette Winterson

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

— Brewster Ghiselin