Writer Quotes · Page 409

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

— Mark Kurlansky

“We write because we have to, not because we want to”

— Steve Berry

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.

— Terri Windling

“I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.”

— Jane Austen

Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned.

— Hermann Hesse

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

— Stephen King

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the…

— Doug TenNapel

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

— Jasmine Guinness

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don't let anybody tell you to make it better,…

— Anonymous

Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but…

— Gloria Steinem

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

— Micah Perks

“Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable…

— Pliny the Younger

I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.

— Olga Kurylenko

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity.…

— Yiyun Li

“...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.…

— Robert Galbraith

“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy…

— Anonymous

The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a…

— Khaled Hosseini

Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of…

— Haven Kimmel

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in…

— Dick Cavett

“(from chapter 29, "Write In a Book What You See") "heuristic writing - writing to explore and discover what I didn't know.…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Today is your wright-time. Anything worth writing will be, or has been written already. A great story chooses its writer lest no…

— Amah Lambert

“Writing is a gift. To be good at your gift you need to keep writing.”

— Lisa Powell

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

— Lois Lowry

“Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out.”

— Clifton L. Taulbert

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.

— Jami Attenberg

Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper.

— Mitch Lucker

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

— John O'Hara

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

— Pam Allyn

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

— Luc de Clapiers

Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.

— Abraham Cowley

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth.

— Clive Cussler

“Three possessions you should prize: A field, a friend, and a book.”

— Hai guan zong shui wu si shu China Hai guan zong shui wu si shu

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

— PJ Harvey

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

— Toni Morrison

“If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader. -Suzanne Steele”

— Suzanne Steele