Writer Quotes · Page 440

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

— Ray Bradbury

“You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.”

— Greg Kihn

“And I will write this down / And then I will not be alone again”

— Dar Williams

I think I would die if I couldn't get to the typewriter every day. I really need that.

— Frank Deford

“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.”

— Kami Garcia

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

— Francisco Costa

The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.

— Carmen Agra Deedy

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never…

— Tracy Letts

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

— Eleanor Catton

I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind…

— Maeve Binchy

“With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.”

— Jarod Kintz

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born…

— Edouard Bourdet

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

— Gabrielle Roy

“All of us and perhaps all of you read in childhood, while in school, that greatest of all monuments of ancient literature,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads”

— Ronald T. Potter-Efron

“And as is often the case, the people who would benefit the most from reading a book like this are the ones…

— Susan C. Young

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that…

— Lois Lowry

The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting…

— Rivka Galchen

If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with…

— Kevin Brockmeier

Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these…

— Nicholson Baker

“People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different?…

— Dale Peck

I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the…

— Anne-Marie Duff

This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact.…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

— Adam Duritz

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

— Stephen D. Krashen

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

— Anonymous

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.

— Susie Bright

“g sees himself as an independent reader: he buys all of the books on the literary prize lists.”

— Joanna Walsh

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

— Roman Abramovich

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

— Robert Ben Garant

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

— Paul Auster

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

— David Almond

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

— Mark Foley

“Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.”

— Emilie and Stephanie

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

— Gertrude Stein

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

— Fay Weldon

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

— Marguerite Young

“I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Take a deep breath, open your eyes, and close the book.”

— Gabriel Bá