Writer Quotes · Page 437

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

— Joyce Maynard

“Better to find out certain things by living them, not by reading them in a book.”

— Susanna Kearsley

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

— Markus Zusak

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

— Victor Hugo

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

— Janis Ian

“Let me read to you,” said Roger Nowell. “It is a night for reading.”

— Jeanette Winterson

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

— Jerry Seinfeld

I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.

— Sally Rooney

“So what's this about a book club? You girls sit around, reading dirty books, fanning each other's vaginas? Because if so, count…

— Jay McLean

I believe whole-heartedly that anything you are passionate about, you can turn into a career benefit if you are a writer.

— DaniAlla

They say your destiny is already written. But sometimes you just have to grab a pen and become your own author.

— Nishan Panwar

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to…

— Michelle Dean

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite…

— Ben E. King

“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books:…

— Mark Mathabane

Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very…

— Joseph Cook

I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.'…

— Jaime Ray Newman

I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice,…

— James Carville

“Groaning, Celaena stood and walked to the bookshelf along the wall, where she began pulling out books and stacking them into the…

— Sarah J. Maas

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but…

— Anne Frank

“He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must…

— John Gardner

“The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger…

— Rebecca Caudill

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the…

— Doris Lessing

One thing that did give me pause for thought, when I told my female friends now that I was writing about a…

— Allison Pearson

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

— Guy Kawasaki

“... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.”

— Mike Bryan

Disparage no book, for it is also a part of the world.

— Nachman of Breslov

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

— Gore Vidal

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

— Talib Kweli

“Whenever someone says, 'I love writing,' I always think, 'You probably suck at writing.”

— Bob Odenkirk

“Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.”

— Stephen Jones

What really makes a home a home is seeing the books of whoever lives there.

— Antonia Lofaso

I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.

— Anthony Horowitz

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

— Natalie Goldberg

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

— Bob Kane

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

— Lena Waithe

In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well.

— Ravi Subramanian

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Jane Eyre. Villette. The Woman in White.” “Middlemarch,”

— Diane Setterfield