Writer Quotes · Page 443

As Elmore Leonard says, I write to find out what happens.

— Kate DiCamillo

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

— William Stafford

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

— Anonymous

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

— John Hersey

“A simple look can not and will not uncover even a simple book.”

— ferrrer joey palomar fesico

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

— Phil Keoghan

“Writing is not a noun, it’s a verb. Writing is not a destination, it’s a journey. You should not write to accomplish…

— Rodney L. Carlson

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at…

— Jenny Lawson

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music…

— Gavin Friday

It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get…

— Dennis Lehane

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate…

— Mary Roach

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order…

— Isabel Allende

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

— Quentin Tarantino

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a…

— Tony Kushner

Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers,…

— Lois Lowry

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it…

— Margaret Atwood

Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think each of my books attempts to create its own voice so I'm not even sure I have a signature style,…

— Paul Lisicky

I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me…

— Madonna Ciccone

I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that.…

— Joseph Boyden

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town:…

— Seanan McGuire

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

— Robert Sheckley

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

— Jean Baudrillard

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

— Alain de Botton

“I have my writers’ neuroses but not their talents.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“My book is called “Blue Collar.” That’s just a working title.”

— Jarod Kintz

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

“Every writer at least once in his/er lifetime creates a character who loves books.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.”

— Peter Davis

Jamie Oliver's books are the best. I love Jamie. Bless him!

— Twiggy

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

— Ian Mcewan

“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries”

— Jo Walton

I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.

— Taylor Swift

Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.

— Max Boot

A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short.

— Ellen Glasgow

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

— Rita Mae Brown