Writer Quotes · Page 417

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I hope they find some way to come up with a new story that involves Beast in my timeline.

— Kelsey Grammer

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

— Sarah J. Maas

“Write for the pleasure of writing, but share it for the pleasure of others.”

— Lon Grover

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

— Anais Nin

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

— Robin Sloan

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

— Walter Moers

For most of my life - well, maybe half of my life, but basically until I was in my mid-20s - I…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.

— Harry Dean Stanton

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

— Patricia Highsmith

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.

— Forrest Griffin

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on…

— Edward Albee

There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

— Renata Adler

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is…

— Edward Gibbon

“And if publishers are too skittish to bite—sell it as goddamn fiction. Make yourself the author and change the names if necessary.…

— Joshua V. Scher

“I’ve often envied those writers in the Western world who can peacefully practice their craft and earn a living thereby… What [the…

— KEN SARO WIWA written to PEN Center USA from his prison cell in Nigeria shortly before his execution

When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid…

— Taslima Nasrin

“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground…

— Vera Nazarian

Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I eat, breath and sleep and that makes me like everyone else. When I write, I become something much greater than flesh…

— CK Webb

“For a long time, I felt like I was destined to inherit a certain kind of life and so I wouldn’t let…

— Kenny Porpora

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you…

— Adrienne Rich

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who…

— Tom Stoppard

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

“In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.”

— Richard L. Brandt

“Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever.”

— Marina Nemat

I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

— Tamora Pierce

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

— Karl Lagerfeld

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

— Anne Enright

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

— Irving Langmuir

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

— Atul Gawande

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.

— Gail Honeyman

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

— Jack London

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

— Jeffery Deaver

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

— Julien Green