Writer Quotes · Page 441

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

— Robert B. Parker

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

— James M. Cain

“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”

— Augustine Birrell

I spend a lot of time reading. Also, I pen down my thoughts and perceptions about books I read.

— Mayank Agarwal

“A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.”

— David Almond

“I’m getting tempted to visit the Bookhouse myself. No telling what else you’d find on those shelves.”

— Mark Frost

“He was looking forward to letting Joanne know, in a casual way, that he had read these books.”

— Ken Follett

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

— Rosellen Brown

No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and…

— Amanda Harlech

I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

— Judy Blume

I always wrote about myself in the third person. I knew how to promote myself so it sounded intelligent. I know how…

— Lisa Lampanelli

“Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words…

— Timothy Schaffert

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books…

— Jason Marsden

“So many signs exist today that you could write a book about them. In fact, I did, The Beginning of the End,…

— Tim LaHaye

“And a second thank you to my genius editor, Julian Pavia, who pushed me as hard as I’ve ever been pushed and…

— Blake Crouch

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My…

— Julianna Baggott

“ Possible Problems with Journal Writing Be careful not to get too involved with your journal. In many published journals, writers such…

— Heather Moehn

“To be honest, I write for myself. Therapy, I suppose people would call it. So when someone buys and reads one of…

— Robert Black

I've read over 4,000 books in the last 20+ years. I don't know anybody who's read more books than I have. I…

— Larry Winget

Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power…

— Barack Obama

Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to…

— Amalia Kahana-Carmon

Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with…

— Stephen Dobyns

It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message.…

— Ruth Ozeki

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

— Neil Gaiman

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

— Greg Gutfeld

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

— Lisa Scottoline

“If you don't write with the reader in mind, you are not a writer, period.”

— Tom Grimes

I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.

— Peter Frampton

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

— Anonymous

“Writing is not about ideas, it is about the expression of ideas - a written expression.”

— Paul Raymond Martin

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience…

— Joseph Joubert

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

— William Faulkner

“Books are boring.' 'Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

— Tim O'Brien

The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are.

— Richard Flanagan

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

— Anthony Doerr

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— Richard Rhodes