Writer Quotes · Page 403

I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.

— James Franco

“She knew where she stood, when she stood among books.”

— M.R. Graham

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

— Robert Cormier

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

— Mason Cooley

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

— Anna Todd

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.”

— St Augustine

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page or just closing the book.

— Anonymous

“Writing is like eating Jelly with chopsticks. You know where you want the food to go, but you just can't get it…

— Joanne McDonnell

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left…

— Anonymous

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying…

— Truman Capote

“There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.”

— Saru Singhal

Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder…

— Christopher Bollen

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the…

— Tony Kushner

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my…

— Jonathan Lethem

That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember…

— Michael Scott

“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us…

— Graham Worthington

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between…

— William Osler

“He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab a good one as…

— Andrew Peterson

“I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little…

— L.M. Montgomery

Write like you write, like you can't help but write, and your voice will become yours and yours alone. It'll take time…

— Chuck Wendig

“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable…

— Michel Foucault

The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal…

— Alberto Manguel

“Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.”

— Neil Postman

I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

— Dan Brown

“One of the great books of our time. I should know; I wrote it." (apocryphal)”

— Tim Roux

No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different.

— Celeste Ng

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

— Jodie Foster

The writing process really became natural when it was real and from my heart, and I was exposed.

— Tiffany Darwish

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

— Sue Townsend

“Writing a book should be the best way to break into someone's house.”

— Krishna

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When you aren't doing too many films, people find other things to write about you.

— Arjun Kapoor

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

— Gene Luen Yang

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

— Margaret Atwood

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

— Thomas Mann

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

— Elizabeth Bowen