Writer Quotes · Page 423

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

— John Ashbery

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

— Marianne Moore

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

— Uri Shulevitz

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

— Paullina Simons

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

— Tracy Chapman

one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.

— Fay Weldon

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

— Stephen King

“Just write what You want to write, how You want to write it! K.D.Faerydae”

— K.D. Faerydae

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of…

— Tim Burton

I've found through experience that I'm only good when I'm writing something that, in essence, only I could write. The times I've…

— Steven Soderbergh

I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you…

— Anne Lamott

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Most people probably didn't think I'd make it as a professional writer. But I couldn't follow their advice.”

— Haruki Murakami

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and…

— Diablo Cody

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible…

— Anonymous

Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a…

— Jonathan Gottschall

“I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says,…

— Karen A. Wyle

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece…

— CK Webb

Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want…

— Betty Smith

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing.…

— Julia Glass

Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying…

— Emmanuel Macron

“Writing is reverse metamorphosis. One entombs a beautiful idea in a chrysalis of paper or electronic bits and bites, and when you’re…

— Kermit E. Heartsong

“Many writers have reported being able to forestall the petty annoyances of life by maintaining the shared illusion that they are working…

— Kenneth B. Lifshitz

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

— Jim Crace

“Tension is making the reader ask a question, and then not answering it.”

— Rachel Aaron

“Write for love, edit for perfection & publish to share that moment in time”

— Debbie Behan

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

— Marilyn Johnson

“If investors only had to study the past, the richest people would be librarians.”

— Daniel Pecaut

“If you don't love to read, you just haven't found the right book.”

— Tim Green

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

— Paulo Coelho

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There comes a time when you have to chose between turning the page and closing the book…

— Melchor Lim

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

— Alec Baldwin

I've always written about stuff I have gone through.

— Adam Gontier

I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.

— Chrissy Costanza

“Killed by a librarian with a red card," said Jerry. "that's got to be embarrassing.”

— John Joseph Adams

Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

— Tama Janowitz