Writer Quotes · Page 414

Even in my most solipsistic moments, I don't regard my literary debut as a matter of global interest.

— Rebecca Front

“Wishing you the best adventures in reading and in life!”

— Sass Cadeaux

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

— Rebecca Ferguson

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

— Haruki Murakami

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

— George R.R. Martin

“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.”

— Donalyn Miller

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

— Jeff Bridges

“For knowledge, you should read books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.”

— Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Books have knowledge, knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime, and crime doesn't pay..so if you keep reading, you'll go…

— Books and music. Facebook

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going…

— Theodore Sturgeon

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

— Beverly Cleary

“What a grim feeling it is to come across a written line so exceptionally inspiring that your first reaction is, 'Criminy, why…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want…

— Michael Connelly

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is…

— Bruce Boxleitner

“I want to be part of your story. I want your story to rearrange the symbols in my mind. I want your…

— David Bowles

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so…

— David Sedaris

I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty…

— Wayne Flynt

Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have…

— Maya Angelou

“You want to get your book to press. You rush it through. Revision number twenty—done. Do you really need twenty more? Yes.…

— Chila Woychik

We need to actually teach kids that books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat every bit on your plate. It's…

— Jackie French

The only way I've been able to stay informed without letting fury rule my life is to channel my rage into something…

— Cheryl Strayed

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences…

— Phil Klay

“Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level.”

— Richard Ridley

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

— Virginia Woolf

“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.”

— Gustave Flaubert

I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.

— Jennifer Egan

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

“I will not stop singing the Muses who set me dancing.”

— Anne Carson

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

— Maggie Stiefvater

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

— Terry Pratchett

If you yourself don't know how to carry pencil, don't wish someone to teach you to write.

— Voeun Tivea

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

— Alice Kahn

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

— Robert Breault

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

— Mark Kurlansky

“The best books inspire you to be better and get up and do something!”

— Storytime Corner

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

— Paul Auster

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

— Michael Morpurgo